When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
“But it has been my way—as a woman, but also as a writer—to speak of the kinds of human experience so many… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story… — 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 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
My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way, but… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me. — 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 Image
“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 Image
“It’s like life: sometimes the littlest thing turns out to be the most important.” — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
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 Image
I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
