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45 quotes by Joyce Maynard

Joyce Maynard Maynard at the 2010 Texas Book Festival Born (1953-11-05) November 5, 1953 (age 61) Durham, New Hampshire, United States Spouse(s) Steve Bethel (1977–1989; divorced; three children) Jim Barringer (married 2013) Daphne Joyce Maynard (born November 5, 1953) is an American author known for writing with candor about her life, as well as for her works of fiction and hundreds of essays and newspaper columns, often about parenting...
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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... →

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

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Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.

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

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

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I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot.

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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.

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

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

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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?

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One life is not enough for me. I want to go lots of places.

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The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me.

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Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

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