106 Quotes by Joyce Maynard

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.

I continued to protect him with my silence.

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

I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level.

I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot.

No, I said. I didn't remember that. There was so much to remember, sometimes the best thing was to forget.

Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.

I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.

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.