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I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot.
— Joyce Maynard
The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.
— Joyce Maynard
There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.
— Joyce Maynard
The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.
— Joyce Maynard
A lot of your problem was in your head. You see yourself screwing up, it's going to happen.
— Joyce Maynard
The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me.
— Joyce Maynard
You like to think you can count on a person. To hang around
— Joyce Maynard
The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.
— Joyce Maynard
Some family's boat capsized at Lake Winnipesaukee the day before and now they were looking for the father's body.
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Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.
— Joyce Maynard
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.
— Joyce Maynard
The word NO, carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.
— Joyce Maynard
For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.
— Joyce Maynard
I've had some wonderful successes and some extreme disappointments in my career and my life.
— Joyce Maynard
Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.
— Joyce Maynard
One life is not enough for me. I want to go lots of places.
— Joyce Maynard
No, I said. I didn't remember that. There was so much to remember, sometimes the best thing was to forget.
— Joyce Maynard
Every child, woman, and man should possess license to speak or sing in his or her true voice.
— Joyce Maynard
It's a great thing when a man knows how to dance, she said. When a man can dance, the world is his oyster.Adele, Henry's Mother — Joyce Maynard
A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.
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She was in love with love.
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Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.
— Joyce Maynard
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[On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in the door.
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There was a way of looking at the world where practically every single thing that happened had some kind of double meaning.
— Joyce Maynard
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.
— Joyce Maynard
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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I tried to think of what my father would tell me. 'Don't let any boy give you shit.' But he'd never said how we should go about preventing this.
— Joyce Maynard
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?
— Joyce Maynard
If you act like something's too hard, it will be, he said. You got to believe it's possible.
— Joyce Maynard
A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.
— Joyce Maynard
Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.
— Joyce Maynard
A good home must be made, not bought.
— Joyce Maynard
It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects.
— Joyce Maynard
The real drug, I came to believe, was love.
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If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.
— Joyce Maynard
Weary soldiers who went through a war together, side by
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I continued to protect him with my silence.
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