Quotes By Joyce Maynard

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

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.

Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on.

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.

For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.

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.

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.