I've had some wonderful successes and some extreme disappointments in my career and my life. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
“It’s like life: sometimes the littlest thing turns out to be the most important.” — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
“I had developed, early on, the habit of low expectations, and of letting my life be directed by whatever person happened to… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
“...tragedy and death would follow a person whereever he went in life. There was no such thing as escape, except maybe the… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
As for me, I've chosen to follow a simple course: Come clean. And wherever possible, live your life in a way that… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, that's… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
No, I said. I didn't remember that. There was so much to remember, sometimes the best thing was to forget. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share
“I tried to think of what my father would tell me. 'Don't let any boy give you shit.' But he'd never said how we… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share
“It’s like life: sometimes the littlest thing turns out to be the most important.” — Joyce Maynard Copy Share
Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share
I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share
I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells me that… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share
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,… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share
Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share
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… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share
“They seemed to arrive at some form of friendship. Maybe they were like a couple of weary soldiers who went through a war together,… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share
In the event of an oxygen shortage on airplanes, mothers of young children are always reminded to put on their own oxygen mask first,… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share
