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“There seems to be a tremendous desire among many people now to know authors and how they work, to know what's autobiographical and what isn't.”

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“When I've taught writing to five, six, and seven year olds, it's not very different than talking to an adult writer. They're writers then, and when they get to be young teenagers they're not anymore. You might go and talk to them about writing, and they'll be very self-conscious or will have detached themselves from the group.”

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“Little children are all writers.”

Children Littles

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“There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being offensive in some way.”

Way Writing Government Censorship Offensive Government And Society

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“I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it wrong.' I can't bear that!”

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“You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.”

People World Writing Fiction Mirrors

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“There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.”

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