If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.

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• Joyce Maynard:

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

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  Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the

• Joyce Maynard:

  My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor

• Joyce Maynard:

  Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his lett

• Joyce Maynard:

  Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabus

• Joyce Maynard:

  Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to

• Joyce Maynard:

  The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and witho

• Joyce Maynard:

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

• Joyce Maynard:

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