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Joyce Maynard

"I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?"

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"I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?"

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Donna Grant

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

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Donna Grant

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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Donna Grant

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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Donna Grant

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

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Donna Grant

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

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Donna Grant

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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Donna Grant

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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Donna Grant

"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."

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Donna Grant

"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."

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Donna Grant

"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."

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Joyce Maynard
"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."

Home

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Joyce Maynard
"Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power."

Power

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

Ability

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Joyce Maynard
"The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval."

Fear

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Joyce Maynard
"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."

Being

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Joyce Maynard
"A person who deserves my loyalty receives it."

Loyalty

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Joyce Maynard
"The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn."

Parenting

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

Narrative

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Joyce Maynard
"The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art."

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Joyce Maynard
"My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?"

Money

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