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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One of the sad realities of being a parent is that the same stuff you know is exciting, educational, and enriching in your child'slife is often messy, smelly and exhausting to deal with.
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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.
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Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.
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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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Every child, woman, and man should possess license to speak or sing in his or her true voice.
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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.
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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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I've had some wonderful successes and some extreme disappointments in my career and my life.
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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.
The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me.