I enjoy shooting. Around where I live, it's something you do for entertainment once in a while, you go out and shoot targets. — 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 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
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 Image
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 Image
Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard. — Bonnie Jo Campbell 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 decide then… — Bonnie Jo Campbell 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 with ideas… — 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 cautiousness. — Bonnie Jo Campbell 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 one of… — Bonnie Jo Campbell 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 having adventures… — 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 solution. I… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
