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
writing people ugly
It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.
home doors people
[On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in the door.
home calling persons
Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back.
responsibility years pleasers
For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.
home stories redemption
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.
stories would-be boundaries
If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.
drama doors ordinary
The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.
remember forget sometimes
No, I said. I didn't remember that. There was so much to remember, sometimes the best thing was to forget.
tragedy comedy source
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me.