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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

"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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Donna Grant

"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."

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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."

Art

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

Expectation

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Joyce Maynard
"Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on."

Life

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Joyce Maynard
"It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself."

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Joyce Maynard
"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."

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Joyce Maynard
"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."

Woman

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Joyce Maynard
"Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love."

Age

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Joyce Maynard
"If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life."

Life

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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."

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

Parenting

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