"I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way, but for me, part of the adventure is not knowing how it's going to turn out."

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Source : "Maynard turns eye to sisterhood". Interview with John Wilkens, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. August 25, 2013.

Joyce Maynard

#Adventure Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Way Quotes

“I've had friends get mad at me for not posting what they think I should post on Instagram on behalf of them or our relation. I've had people question my "integrity" based off of something I didn't post on social media, the list goes on. It's mind boggling.”
“Being good at fashion and beauty and girly stuff has been such a point of insecurity for me; I'm not good at coming up with jokes that make fun of other people for that, because I don't feel like I have a mastery of it myself.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and who play Chess”

Source : Mortimer Collins, Frank Kerslake (1880). “Attic Salt, Or, Epigrammatic Sayings, Healthful, Humorous and Wise: In Prose and Verse, Collected from the Works of Mortimer Collins”
“Especially when I'm in the gym, I get really motivated by hip-hop.”
“The idiot had shot their own dog. Thatâ€™s what happened when the destructive potential of a manâ€™s weapons exceeded his intelligence.”
“Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.”
“The first question to be answered by any individual or any social group, facing a hazardous situation, is whether the crisis is to be met as a challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair.”
“Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.”

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