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.

A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.

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.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.