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
girl writing men
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.
lying writing simple
As for me, I've chosen to follow a simple course: Come clean. And wherever possible, live your life in a way that won't leave you tempted to lie. Failing that, I'd rather be disliked for who I truly am than loved for who I am not. So, I tell my story. I write it down. I even publish it. Sometimes this is a humbling experience. Sometimes it's embarrassing. But I haul around no terrible secrets.
running drama writing
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.
writing long persons
I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.
book writing challenges
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.
writing people ugly
It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.
jobs cancer writing
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?
carries knows meaning parent parents spoken word
The word no Carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.
life
One life is not enough for me. I want to go lots of places.
stories valuable women writers
Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.
career extreme life successes wonderful
I've had some wonderful successes and some extreme disappointments in my career and my life.
dared object people telling truly turns
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?
entertain herself planet raise teach
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.