Quotes By 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.

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.

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.

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.

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.