Mostly the natural landscapes work as a sounding board for my characters, so they can understand themselves, and it acts as a mirror in which we readers see ourselves. The natural world is the place into which all my characters… — Bonnie Jo Campbell 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 Ph.D. in… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share
I'm of the people in the bar and the people in my stories. They are my tribe. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share
That's where I live, a junkyard in a neighborhood of junkyards. We have three tractors from the 1940s and '50s, several old pickup trucks,… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share
A Life in Men is a joyful, ambitious novel that is also an adventure traversing three continents, as well as a meditation on love,… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share
Any of us who listen to the news or listen to stories our neighbors tell are accustomed to violence. We have to decide then… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share
In a regular class I don't focus on the form, but I think that focus is helpful for brainstorming and coming up with ideas… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share
My donkeys are Jack and Don Quixote. They're very smart, very cautious. Much of what people consider stubbornness in donkeys is actually cautiousness. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share
Cocoa-buttered girls were stretched out on the public beach in apparently random alignments, but maybe if a weather satellite zoomed in on one of… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share
I think back when I was kind of a crappy writer, I really did know my time was better spent working and having adventures… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share
The great thing about fiction is that I don't have to settle on an answer to any troubling question, or even a solution. I… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share
Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share
“She hoped Smoke was wrong about people being unknowable. She hoped that she could crack herself open like a nut and know herself, at… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share
That was a mistake, I guess, going out to California. They have these things called guidance counselors in high school. They drink a lot… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share
