I've spent many a day worrying that I will never be able to write again! — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
I tend to only write productively for one to two hours per day, so there is plenty of time left over for… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
I find that time constraints actually make me more productive, and "real world" experiences provide a lot of inspiration to write. — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
From beginning to end, the novel [Dissemblers] took about three and a half years to write. I didn't write it chronologically. — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
When I finished the book [The Dissemblers], I sent it to one billion agents, and got one billion rejections. — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
The book [The Dissemblers] officially came out two weeks after my thirtieth birthday...am I still young? — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
I knew the basic outline of the novel [The Dissemblers] and would write whatever scene of the book I felt particularly excited… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
At the end, I cobbled scenes all together and smoothed out the transitions as much as possible. Incidentally, I would not recommend… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
Writing a book set in New Mexico was partially a way to express my own love for the state, and partially a… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
Ivy [Wilkes] does exhibit a certain impatience at the beginning of the book [The Dissemblers]. She doesn't want to wait through years of hard… — Liza Campbell Copy Share
[Ivy Wilkes] loves [Georgia] O'Keeffe's work, but is not satisfied by just looking at the paintings; she wants the painting to be her own.… — Liza Campbell Copy Share
I lived in New Mexico until I was seventeen, and honestly I've been homesick ever since I left. — Liza Campbell Copy Share
I started writing about New Mexico in an autobiography class I was taking for school, and realized that it was very inspiring place for… — Liza Campbell Copy Share
I read letters and journal entries by [Georgia] O'Keeffe (which were infinitely more useful than any critical analysis of her work). — Liza Campbell Copy Share
At the beginning of the book [The Dissemblers], Ivy [Wilkes] has a long way to go in order to achieve self-sufficiency. Although she is… — Liza Campbell Copy Share
I am currently in nursing school, so one day I will be both a nurse and a writer. — Liza Campbell Copy Share
I was only loosely aware of [Georgia] O'Keeffe's work. Primarily, I had seen her famous paintings of skulls with flowers, which are not my… — Liza Campbell Copy Share
Because Ivy [Wilkes] is just starting out as an artist, I wanted to focus on [Georgia] O'Keeffe's experiences when she was just starting out.… — Liza Campbell Copy Share
When Ivy [Wilkes] begins her work in forgery, she doesn't yet know the toll that it will take on her own original work. She… — Liza Campbell Copy Share
Does art play a role in the greater good of society, or does it just promote the satisfaction of the artist? I go back… — Liza Campbell Copy Share
I was loosely aware that most of my characters were fundamentally selfish people, but I didn't intentionally make that a theme. — Liza Campbell Copy Share
I hope to work through disappointment and frustration with as much grace as [Georgia] O'Keeffe did, and I hope to have the same confidence… — Liza Campbell Copy Share
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