106 Quotes by Joyce Maynard

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother 'worked' at anything besides raising her children.

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.

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.

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.

I've had some wonderful successes and some extreme disappointments in my career and my life.

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

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me.