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I figure that I’m always going to be fine, one way or another, but I do worry about other people who have difficulty moving from one world to the next. It’s the folks who are truly invested in their lives who have the hardest time with change.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

I worked probably fewer jobs than most people, or fewer real soul-killing jobs than other people. I’ve been a typist, a typesetter, a keyliner, cappuccino-maker. I think I’ve been pretty lucky.
BONNIE JO CAMPBELL

Jobs Real Thinking
The great thing about fiction is that I don’t have to settle on an answer to any troubling question, or even a solution.
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Broken Decision Writing
Being five-foot-ten at fourteen years old was a little bit scary.
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Feet Scary Years
Since I’m living with the violence and trouble in my brain, it’s kind of a relief to write about it, to get it on paper, to put it in context, to find meaning in it.
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Context Meaning Trouble Violence
I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny columns.
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People School Writing
I have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training.
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Black Degrees Training
I’m pro-life, in the sense that chaos seems like life to me and order seems like death.
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Chaos Life Order Pro
I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous.
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Adventurous Felt Obligation
I figure that I’m always going to be fine, one way or another, but I do worry about other people who have difficulty moving from one world to the next. It’s the folks who are truly invested in their lives who have the hardest time with change.
BONNIE JO CAMPBELL

Change Hardest Moving People Worry
Any of us who listen to the news or listen to stories our neighbors tell are accustomed to violence.
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Brain Understanding Writing
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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Luck Thought Writing
Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I’ve heard.
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Heard Novel Percent
I can’t personally drink or fight too much nowadays because I have to be perky in the morning in order to write.
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Fighting Morning Writing
$Bonnie Jo Campbell Quote - Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you’re often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.$

Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you’re often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.
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Help Math Thinking Writing
Where I live you’re not supposed to shoot a firearm within a quarter mile of a dwelling.
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Dwelling Miles Quarters
If you have someone falling out of the boat, you’d have to drag the boat up the river and film the same scene ten times, every time, dragging the boat exactly where it was up the river.
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Boat Fall Film Rivers Scene Time

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