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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

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 around me.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

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  I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous.

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  I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn’t do it, then you were out of luck.

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  All those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns.

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  Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I’ve heard.

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  That’s why I have to be a fiction writer, because I can’t remember what just happened or where I went last week or what movie I just watched with my husband. I’m better off just making things up.

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  I like living near my family, and near the people I understand the best. The landscape of Michigan speaks to me, and the humility and humor of the people here makes sense. It just feels right to live here, in a place where I don’t dare put on airs.

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  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, and, most important, friendship, which can overcome time, distance, and even death.

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  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, so I should try to do every other thing besides writing. That’s how I ended up being a hitchhiker, a world traveler, and a mathematician.

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  You can’t beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing.

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  I’m pro-life, in the sense that chaos seems like life to me and order seems like death.

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  Being five-foot-ten at fourteen years old was a little bit scary.

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  After a year, it was great to get out of L.A. and return to Hyde Park. Since my grandparents lived in Hyde Park, I had been coming there since I was a tyke.

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  I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they’re not being written about much anymore.

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