I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Beautiful Copy Share Image
I didn't actually figure out how to get guidance, so I just decided to go to school at University of Southern California… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Brochures 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… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Adventure 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… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Brainstorming Copy Share Image
Weirdly the writing experience has not really changed that much except it used to be that I was busy because I had… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
“She hoped Smoke was wrong about people being unknowable. She hoped that she could crack herself open like a nut and know… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Smoke Copy Share Image
I was unhappy and I couldn't figure out what was the matter. And he told me to go take a writing course.… — 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… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
“I’ve never shot like that in my life. That’s unholy.” Uncle Cal claimed credit for teaching her to shoot, but while Margo… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Life Copy Share Image
It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic-love or war or a giant asteroid. Every man wanted to… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Asteroids Copy Share Image
I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people who are… — Bonnie Jo Campbell 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
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
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
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
I was never a big reader as a kid. My imagination wasn't captured by books very often. It was captured more often… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
Maybe the hardest lesson is the one I have to learn over and over again, that each story is its own animal,… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Animal Copy Share Image
I worked probably fewer jobs than most people, or fewer real soul-killing jobs than other people. I've been a typist, a typesetter,… — Bonnie Jo Campbell 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
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 realized that I was writing about folks with lots of skills, especially fix-it skills and survival skills, who were nonetheless not… — Bonnie Jo Campbell America 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
![“Some people tell me they would be afraid of my characters, but I tell those people [that] they meet these characters all the time. They just don't care about them when they meet them, at the gas station, the car wash, the post office even.” quote by Bonnie Jo Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc9/bonnie-jo-campbell-9521_car_some-people-tell-me-they-would-be-afraid_1066185.jpg)
