Joyce Maynard Life Quotations

Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.

If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, that's fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldn't! They shouldn't read my work!

I have not chosen to live a particularly private life myself, I respect the decision of any man or woman who chooses to live such a life.

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

I've had some wonderful successes and some extreme disappointments in my career and my life.