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
Joyce Maynard quotes about
american-writer felt oppressive shame silent
I felt shame and failure, for all the compromises I'd made in my life. I could feel his silent disapproval of me. It was an oppressive thing.
eighteen looking reflects year
Looking Back: An Eighteen Year Old Reflects on Life.
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It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects.
being-free might salinger
Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.
The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me.