Joyce Maynard Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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?”

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

“It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.”

“One life is not enough for me. I want to go lots of places.”

“I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.”

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

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

“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.”

“The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me.”

“I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.”