Books Quotes by Liza Campbell

Ivy [Wilkes] does exhibit a certain impatience at the beginning of the book [The Dissemblers]. She doesn't want to wait through years…

— Liza Campbell

I read letters and journal entries by [Georgia] O'Keeffe (which were infinitely more useful than any critical analysis of her work).

— Liza Campbell

At the beginning of the book [The Dissemblers], Ivy [Wilkes] has a long way to go in order to achieve self-sufficiency. Although…

— Liza Campbell

I was only loosely aware of [Georgia] O'Keeffe's work. Primarily, I had seen her famous paintings of skulls with flowers, which are…

— Liza Campbell

When I finished the book [The Dissemblers], I sent it to one billion agents, and got one billion rejections.

— Liza Campbell

The book [The Dissemblers] officially came out two weeks after my thirtieth birthday...am I still young?

— Liza Campbell

I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and…

— Liza Campbell

At the end, I cobbled scenes all together and smoothed out the transitions as much as possible. Incidentally, I would not recommend…

— Liza Campbell

I knew the basic outline of the novel [The Dissemblers] and would write whatever scene of the book I felt particularly excited…

— Liza Campbell

Now I am as big of an [ Georgia] O'Keeffe admirer as Ivy [Wilkes] is, but that came through writing the book.

— Liza Campbell

I'm working on a novel about a girl who grows up in the circus and her relationship with her father, who grew…

— Liza Campbell

This was my first novel [The Dissemblers ]. I've never seriously written short stories, and actually find short stories much more intimidating…

— Liza Campbell

Writing a book set in New Mexico was partially a way to express my own love for the state, and partially a…

— Liza Campbell

From beginning to end, the novel [Dissemblers] took about three and a half years to write. I didn't write it chronologically.

— Liza Campbell