Joyce Maynard

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

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.

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

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

I was a really bad teenager and I got my tongue pierced. I don't even remember where I did it, but it was under very surreptitious circumstances.

Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.