People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction. — 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
Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Books Copy Share Image
The best and easiest lesson for me was to learn that writing is mostly hard work. — 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
I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I grew up with donkeys, as well as horses, but I'm more interested in donkeys. — Bonnie Jo Campbell 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
“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
I do different work, teaching and running around visiting universities and bookstores, and that prevents me from writing. But it's nice to… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Bookstores Copy Share Image
If you have someone falling out of the boat, you'd have to drag the boat up the river and film the same… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
Some people tell me they would be afraid of my characters, but I tell those people [that] they meet these characters all… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I figure that I'm always going to be fine, one way or another, but I do worry about other people who have… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Change Copy Share Image
After a year, it was great to get out of L.A. and return to Hyde Park. Since my grandparents lived in Hyde… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Grandparent 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… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Cautious Copy Share Image
Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong.… — 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… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Adventure Copy Share Image
I love investigating the natural world, and I find a lot of truths there, truths about survival and beauty - nature continually… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
Men didn't understand that you couldn't let yourself be consumed with passion when there were so many people needing your attention, when… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Attention Copy Share Image
Mostly the natural landscapes work as a sounding board for my characters, so they can understand themselves, and it acts as a… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Character 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… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Alignment 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… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Brain Copy Share Image
I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Character 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 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 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 truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn't very good. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Truth 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 Copy Share Image
Where I live you're not supposed to shoot a firearm within a quarter mile of a dwelling. — Bonnie Jo Campbell 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 Copy Share Image
Donkeys are the most misunderstood and abused animals around the world. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Abused animals Copy Share Image
Being five-foot-ten at fourteen years old was a little bit scary. — Bonnie Jo Campbell 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
I have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training. — Bonnie Jo Campbell 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
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