Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Joyce Maynard (American Novelist)

Daphne Joyce Maynard (b.1953) is an American novelist and journalist. She began her career in journalism in the 1970s, writing for several publications, most notably Seventeen magazine and The New York Times. Maynard contributed to Mademoiselle and Harrowsmith magazines in the 1980s while also beginning a career as a novelist with the publication of her first novel, Baby Love. Her second novel, To Die For, drew from the Pamela Smart murder case and was adapted into the 1995 film of the same name. Maynard received significant media attention in 1998 with the publication of her memoir At Home in the World, which deals with her affair with J. D. Salinger.

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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.
Joyce Maynard
Topics: Wishes

The word no carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.
Joyce Maynard
Topics: Parenting, Parents

There’s no understanding the future without the present, and no understanding where we are now without a glance, a least, to where we have been.
Joyce Maynard

A good home must be made, not bought.
Joyce Maynard
Topics: One liners, Home

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