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A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.

~Joyce Maynard

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

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When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.

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

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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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Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.

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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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The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.

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Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on.

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At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 5th, 1953

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