Joyce Maynard Quotes - Page 2

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• The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

  Joyce Maynard

  Parent, Portraits, Complicated

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• Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

  Joyce Maynard

  Perfection, World, Illusion

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• Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.

  Joyce Maynard

  Being Free, Might, Salinger

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• 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.

  Joyce Maynard

  Daughter, Mother, Encouragement

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• Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.

  Joyce Maynard

  Believe, Long, Expectations

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• 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.

  Joyce Maynard

  Writing, Long, Persons

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• The word NO, carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.

  Joyce Maynard

  Parent, Know How, Knows

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• It's sad but true that if you focus your attention on housework and meal preparation and diapers, raising children does start to look like drudgery pretty quickly. On the other hand, if you see yourself as nothing less than your child's nurturer, role model, teacher, spiritual guide, and mentor, your days take on a very different cast.

  Joyce Maynard

  Spiritual, Teacher, Children

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• For a parent, it's hard to recognize the significance of your work when you're immersed in the mundane details. Few of us, as we run the bath water or spread the peanut butter on the bread, proclaim proudly, "I'm making my contribution to the future of the planet." But with the exception of global hunger, few jobs in the world of paychecks and promotions compare in significance to the job of parent.

  Joyce Maynard

  Running, Jobs, Water

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• I continued to protect him with my silence.

  Joyce Maynard

  Silence, Protect

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

  Joyce Maynard

  Would Be, Stories, Boundaries

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• 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.

  Joyce Maynard

  Running, Drama, Writing

  "Joyce Maynard: Family Is Ultimate Source Of Inspiration" by Joyce Maynard, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2010.

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• 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.

  Joyce Maynard

  Home, Stories, Redemption

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• [On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in the door.

  Joyce Maynard

  Home, Doors, People

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

  Joyce Maynard

  Running, Keeping Secrets, Toxic

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• I'd known enough flush times and lean ones to understand that money came and went. And that one day I'd also lose my looks, my seemingly boundless energy and maybe the ability to catch the eye of an attractive man and the audacity to Rollerblade. My name would be forgotten. So would bad reviews, and good ones. But loving a child is something that lasts. Long after all the rest is gone, that's what endures.

  Joyce Maynard

  Children, Eye, Men

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

  Joyce Maynard

  Stories, Levels, Ability

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

  Joyce Maynard

  Beautiful, Peaceful, Serial Killer

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

  Joyce Maynard

  Thinking, Opera, Soap

  "Joyce Maynard: Family Is Ultimate Source Of Inspiration" by Joyce Maynard, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2010.

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

  Joyce Maynard

  Responsibility, Years, Pleasers

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• The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.

  Joyce Maynard

  Drama, Doors, Ordinary

  "Maynard turns eye to sisterhood". Interview with John Wilkens, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. August 25, 2013.

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• 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.

  Joyce Maynard

  Tragedy, Comedy, Source

  "Family Is Ultimate Source Of Inspiration" by Joyce Maynard, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2010.

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• As for me, I've chosen to follow a simple course: Come clean. And wherever possible, live your life in a way that won't leave you tempted to lie. Failing that, I'd rather be disliked for who I truly am than loved for who I am not. So, I tell my story. I write it down. I even publish it. Sometimes this is a humbling experience. Sometimes it's embarrassing. But I haul around no terrible secrets.

  Joyce Maynard

  Lying, Writing, Simple

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

  Joyce Maynard

  Remember, Sometimes, Forget

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• I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells me that twenty years from now not one of them will sit on some therapist's couch complaining because their mother didn't spend enough time vacuuming up glitter.

  Joyce Maynard

  Mother, Children, Years

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