![]() ![]() I’m a big believer in taking control of my destiny when I can. You don’t have to wait for anyone to give you a job. That was a valuable lesson, by the way-and one I try to impart to young people. When I was 18, it seemed like a sensible thing to do, to write a letter to the editor of the New York Times that said, “I’d like to write for you.” He wrote back with an assignment. I started sending essays and articles to Seventeen Magazine when I was 14 or so. For me, writing was a way to open up my world. Top of the list: my father’s alcoholism, which we never mentioned.īut my mother instilled in me, very young, the idea that my words mattered, and she gave me the tools to be a writer. Joyce Maynard: My mother had a saying, whenever I’d come home to report on something hard that had happened in my life: “At least you can write about it.”Īt the time, I didn’t write about the hardest things. Kathy Caprino: When did you start writing? What led you to make it a career? ![]()
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