I was never a big reader as a kid. My imagination wasn't captured by books very often. It was captured more often… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I enjoy shooting. Around where I live, it's something you do for entertainment once in a while, you go out and shoot… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
That was a mistake, I guess, going out to California. They have these things called guidance counselors in high school. They drink… — Bonnie Jo Campbell California Copy Share Image
I wasn't writing stories with the intention of creating a particular collection. I simply wrote stories, and then discovered common themes among… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I've worked behind counters serving food, and I've lived on the circus train, and I've led bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Balkans Copy Share Image
That's why I have to be a fiction writer, because I can't remember what just happened or where I went last week… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
That's where I live, a junkyard in a neighborhood of junkyards. We have three tractors from the 1940s and '50s, several old… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Junkyard Copy Share Image
A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Beautiful Copy Share Image
My normal writing day involves three hours of actual writing, before noon, and the rest is just feeding the writing. There is… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Calm Copy Share Image
Nobody tells young writers it's okay if you're not very good, you'll get better. So I just thought I'm not very good,… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I like living near my family, and near the people I understand the best. The landscape of Michigan speaks to me, and… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Character Copy Share Image
Any of us who listen to the news or listen to stories our neighbors tell are accustomed to violence. We have to… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Brain Copy Share Image
Cocoa-buttered girls were stretched out on the public beach in apparently random alignments, but maybe if a weather satellite zoomed in on… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Alignment Copy Share Image
When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
“And loving a new person might even eventually dull the pain of having lost the people you have loved before, even if… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Love Copy Share Image
As a writer, I can live somewhat independently, occupying nooks and crannies and finding meaning there. I can even live in my… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I realized that I was writing about folks with lots of skills, especially fix-it skills and survival skills, who were nonetheless not… — Bonnie Jo Campbell America Copy Share Image
A Life in Men is a joyful, ambitious novel that is also an adventure traversing three continents, as well as a meditation… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Adventure Copy Share Image
Some people tell me they would be afraid of my characters, but I tell those people [that] they meet these characters all… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I figure that I'm always going to be fine, one way or another, but I do worry about other people who have… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Change Copy Share Image
If you have someone falling out of the boat, you'd have to drag the boat up the river and film the same… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong.… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
My donkeys are Jack and Don Quixote. They're very smart, very cautious. Much of what people consider stubbornness in donkeys is actually… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Cautious Copy Share Image
After a year, it was great to get out of L.A. and return to Hyde Park. Since my grandparents lived in Hyde… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Grandparent Copy Share Image
I do different work, teaching and running around visiting universities and bookstores, and that prevents me from writing. But it's nice to… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Bookstores Copy Share Image
Men didn't understand that you couldn't let yourself be consumed with passion when there were so many people needing your attention, when… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Attention Copy Share Image
Mostly the natural landscapes work as a sounding board for my characters, so they can understand themselves, and it acts as a… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Character Copy Share Image
I love investigating the natural world, and I find a lot of truths there, truths about survival and beauty - nature continually… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
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