People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Books Copy Share Image
I'm not much interested in my own self when I write. I'm interested in what I observe out there, what's going on… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Identity Copy Share Image
I have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
Being five-foot-ten at fourteen years old was a little bit scary. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
There were a lot of beautiful, thin people out there driving nice cars. It was a whole different experience being in L.A. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Beautiful Copy Share Image
You can't beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
Where I live you're not supposed to shoot a firearm within a quarter mile of a dwelling. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I can't personally drink or fight too much nowadays because I have to be perky in the morning in order to write. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
Donkeys are the most misunderstood and abused animals around the world. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Abused animals Copy Share Image
In a regular class I don't focus on the form, but I think that focus is helpful for brainstorming and coming up… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Brainstorming Copy Share Image
I think back when I was kind of a crappy writer, I really did know my time was better spent working and… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Adventure Copy Share Image
“She hoped Smoke was wrong about people being unknowable. She hoped that she could crack herself open like a nut and know… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Smoke Copy Share Image
Weirdly the writing experience has not really changed that much except it used to be that I was busy because I had… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I didn't actually figure out how to get guidance, so I just decided to go to school at University of Southern California… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Brochures Copy Share Image
I worked probably fewer jobs than most people, or fewer real soul-killing jobs than other people. I've been a typist, a typesetter,… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
Maybe the hardest lesson is the one I have to learn over and over again, that each story is its own animal,… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Animal Copy Share Image
I was unhappy and I couldn't figure out what was the matter. And he told me to go take a writing course.… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I read stories aloud at every stage. I listen to my writer friends when they kindly offer criticism. I listen to my… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
We know that we need to explore desire in fiction - many say that the only way a story exists is that… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Character Copy Share Image
In fact, when I finally realized I was really going to write, when I was about thirty-four, I was working on my… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Cry Copy Share Image
It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic-love or war or a giant asteroid. Every man wanted to… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Asteroids Copy Share Image
I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people who are… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
The great thing about fiction is that I don't have to settle on an answer to any troubling question, or even a… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
“I’ve never shot like that in my life. That’s unholy.” Uncle Cal claimed credit for teaching her to shoot, but while Margo… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Life Copy Share Image
For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Age Copy Share Image
“Donkey had spoken to and petted dozens of dogs she'd seen jogging along the road or poking around for food at the… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I'm pro-life, in the sense that chaos seems like life to me and order seems like death. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Abortion Copy Share Image
The truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn't very good. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Truth Copy Share Image
I grew up with donkeys, as well as horses, but I'm more interested in donkeys. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
“The Stark River flowed around the oxbow at Murrayville the way blood flowed through Margo Crane's heart.” — Bonnie Jo Campbell Blood flow Copy Share Image
Drugs and drinking affect every family I know, country and city, middle-class and poor. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Cities Copy Share Image
I'm of the people in the bar and the people in my stories. They are my tribe. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Education Copy Share Image
The best and easiest lesson for me was to learn that writing is mostly hard work. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Books Copy Share Image
