Top 44 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know.

One life is not enough for me. I want to go lots of places.

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.

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

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

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.