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" Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old. "
Joyce Maynard
Old
Forgotten
Childhood
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" 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. "
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Long
Life
Nothing
" 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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Writing
Put
" 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. "
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Kitchen
Sun
" You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know. "
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You
Write
Want
" One life is not enough for me. I want to go lots of places. "
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Enough
Want
Places
" 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
Ask
People
" There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets. "
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Secrets
Theme
Toxic
" 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
Tragedy
Comedy
Family
" It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful. "
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Writing
Money
People
" The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval. "
Joyce Maynard
Book
Writing
Story
" I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot. "
Joyce Maynard
Beautiful
Killer
Known
" I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story. "
Joyce Maynard
Right
Believe
Own
" 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
Writing
Time
Money
" 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
Boundaries
You
Tell
" 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. "
Joyce Maynard
Him
Experience
Thinking
" 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
Work
Me
Live
" I've had some wonderful successes and some extreme disappointments in my career and my life. "
Joyce Maynard
Career
Wonderful
Some
" 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
Me
God
" It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects. "
Joyce Maynard
Subjects
Task
Reader
" 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
Women
Power
Men
" 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
Young
World
Woman
" The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families. "
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Doors
Happen
Behind
" 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
Myself
Parents
" The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art. "
Joyce Maynard
Art
Short
Handsome
" A person who deserves my loyalty receives it. "
Joyce Maynard
Who
Deserves
Loyalty
" I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level. "
Joyce Maynard
Ability
Level
Story
" 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 of the adventure is not knowing how it's going to turn out. "
Joyce Maynard
Friends
Way
Turn
" 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. "
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Children
Child
Mother
" 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 of it. "
Joyce Maynard
Only
Endeavor
Alone