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A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.

~Joyce Maynard

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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!

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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.

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Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother 'worked' at anything besides raising her children.

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I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

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More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.

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Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.

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You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know.

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

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There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 5th, 1953

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