All Bonnie Jo Campbell Quotes
- Men didn't understand that you couldn't let yourself be consumed with passion when there were so many people needing your attention, when there was so… Attention
- 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 those… Alignment
- A Life in Men is a joyful, ambitious novel that is also an adventure traversing three continents, as well as a meditation on love, sex,… Adventure
- It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic-love or war or a giant asteroid. Every man wanted to be a hot-headed… Always Waiting
- For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the… Age
- I enjoy shooting. Around where I live, it's something you do for entertainment once in a while, you go out and shoot targets. Enjoy
- We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar to the one… All
- 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 math… Critic
- A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things. Beautiful
- I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous. Adventurous
- I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal. Great
- I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike, but… Alike
- I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people who are in a situation… Anymore
- I read stories aloud at every stage. I listen to my writer friends when they kindly offer criticism. I listen to my husband when he… Aloud
- 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 the Balkans and… All
- When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad… Acres