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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."

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Donna Grant

"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

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Donna Grant

"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

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Donna Grant

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

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Donna Grant

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

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Donna Grant

"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."

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Donna Grant

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

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Donna Grant

"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."

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Donna Grant

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

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Donna Grant

"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."

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Donna Grant

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

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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
"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."

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

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

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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
"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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Joyce Maynard
"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."

Experience

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Joyce Maynard
"The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell."

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