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Joyce Maynard

"It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects."

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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."

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Joyce Maynard
"It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects."

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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."

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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
"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
"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."

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

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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
"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?"

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Aberjhani

"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become."

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Aberjhani

"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."

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Aberjhani

"People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book."

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Aberjhani

"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."

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Aberjhani

"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."

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Aberjhani

"Reading books exposes us to the consistency and uniqueness of being human. Book reading is an investigatory process. We read books in order to encounter the orchestrated words that describe emotions and observations that we too have experienced but are unable to glean the right alignment of words that fully embody the resonance that we seek."

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Aberjhani

"The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself."

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Aberjhani

"With a book he was regardless of time."

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Aberjhani

"Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading."

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Aberjhani

"Ms Rainn, when was the last time you visited a library for the books and not the free Internet it offers?"

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