People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Books Copy Share Image
There were a lot of beautiful, thin people out there driving nice cars. It was a whole different experience being in L.A. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Beautiful Copy Share Image
Being five-foot-ten at fourteen years old was a little bit scary. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Bits Copy Share Image
Donkeys are the most misunderstood and abused animals around the world. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Abused animals Copy Share Image
You can't beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Beats Copy Share Image
Where I live you're not supposed to shoot a firearm within a quarter mile of a dwelling. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Dwelling Copy Share Image
I can't personally drink or fight too much nowadays because I have to be perky in the morning in order to write. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Drink Copy Share Image
I'm not much interested in my own self when I write. I'm interested in what I observe out there, what's going on… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Identity Copy Share Image
I have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Belts 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 Collections 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 Enjoy 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 Findings 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
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 Because i can 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
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
For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Age 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 Dare 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 Get better 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 Annie Copy Share Image
We know that we need to explore desire in fiction - many say that the only way a story exists is that… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Character 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… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Cry Copy Share Image
I read stories aloud at every stage. I listen to my writer friends when they kindly offer criticism. I listen to my… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Aloud Copy Share Image
“Donkey had spoken to and petted dozens of dogs she'd seen jogging along the road or poking around for food at the… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Adopted Copy Share Image
I'm of the people in the bar and the people in my stories. They are my tribe. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Bars Copy Share Image
The best and easiest lesson for me was to learn that writing is mostly hard work. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Hard Copy Share Image
Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Books Copy Share Image
I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Education Copy Share Image
The truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn't very good. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Truth Copy Share Image
I'm pro-life, in the sense that chaos seems like life to me and order seems like death. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Abortion Copy Share Image
“The Stark River flowed around the oxbow at Murrayville the way blood flowed through Margo Crane's heart.” — Bonnie Jo Campbell Blood flow Copy Share Image
Drugs and drinking affect every family I know, country and city, middle-class and poor. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Cities Copy Share Image
I grew up with donkeys, as well as horses, but I'm more interested in donkeys. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Donkey Copy Share Image
I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Manage Copy Share Image
