Joyce Maynard
Joyce Maynard
Daphne Joyce Maynardis an American novelist and journalist. She received much attention from the press with the publication of her 1998 memoir At Home in the World, in which she wrote that she had lived with the writer J. D. Salinger when he was 53 and she was 18...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth5 November 1953
CountryUnited States of America
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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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The word no Carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.
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One life is not enough for me. I want to go lots of places.
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I've had some wonderful successes and some extreme disappointments in my career and my life.
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I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?
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Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home.
You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know.
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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A man kind of dictates the rules about how he is to be treated, and for 30 years, people do what he says. I can't think of another public figure -- and he IS a public figure -- who has been allowed to do that. He's not a monster, but he's not a god. He's a man.
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This book was written with a high level of awareness about the needs of other people in my life, and a respect for certain boundaries.
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It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects.
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Looking Back: An Eighteen Year Old Reflects on Life.
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I lived with a belief that I was a less worthy person for having fallen short of the approval of the man I had admired more than any other I'd known.
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I have not chosen to live a particularly private life myself, I respect the decision of any man or woman who chooses to live such a life.