Joyce Maynard Quotes

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.
Joyce Maynard

Loyalty, Person, Deserves

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.
Joyce Maynard

Children, Parents, Sun

If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.
Joyce Maynard

Tell, Stories, Boundaries

I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?
Joyce Maynard

Wanted, Tell, Story

At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.
Joyce Maynard

Home, Woman, Young

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.
Joyce Maynard

Love, Age, Women

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.
Joyce Maynard

Family, Money, Travel

When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.
Joyce Maynard

Human, Tell, Write

A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.
Joyce Maynard

Good, Home, End

Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on.
Joyce Maynard

Life, Long, Nothing

For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.
Joyce Maynard

Others, Seriously, Pleaser

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother 'worked' at anything besides raising her children.
Joyce Maynard

Mother, Children, Parents

I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.
Joyce Maynard

Tell, Story, Possesses

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.
Joyce Maynard

Age, Women, True

I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level.
Joyce Maynard

Tell, Story, Ability

I continued to protect him with my silence.
Joyce Maynard

Silence, Him, Protect

I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.
Joyce Maynard

Long, Writing, Person

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.
Joyce Maynard

Writer, Realistic, Opera

I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.
Joyce Maynard

Time, God, Woman

If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.
Joyce Maynard

Life, Write, Wishes

If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, that's fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldn't! They shouldn't read my work!
Joyce Maynard

Life, Work, Experience

It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects.
Joyce Maynard

Her, Please, Task

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.
Joyce Maynard

Money, Writing, Speak

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.
Joyce Maynard

Best, Long, After

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?
Joyce Maynard

Time, Money, Job

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 5, 1953

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