Joyce Maynard Quotes

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• A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.
• 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…
• If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.
• 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…
• The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.
• Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.
• 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…
• I continued to protect him with my silence.
• 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.
• For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.
• I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level.
• I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot.
• I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.
• Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.
• The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.
• There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.
• To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because…
• More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the…
• 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…
• I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way, but for me, part…

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