"I think by writing about a place with……" — Bonnie Jo Campbell
"I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal."
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16 Quotes by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Bonnie Jo Campbell has 16 quotes on this site.
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Men didn't understand that you couldn't let yourself be consumed with passion when there were so many people needing your…
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Cocoa-buttered girls were stretched out on the public beach in apparently random alignments, but maybe if a weather satellite zoomed…
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A Life in Men is a joyful, ambitious novel that is also an adventure traversing three continents, as well as…
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It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic-love or war or a giant asteroid. Every man…
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For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with…
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I enjoy shooting. Around where I live, it's something you do for entertainment once in a while, you go out…
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We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin…
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Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're…
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A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about…
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I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous.
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I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that…
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I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people…
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