Quotes By Joyce Maynard

I continued to protect him with my silence.

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.

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?

If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.

I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.

It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects.

At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.