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.
BONNIE JO CAMPBELLThe truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn’t very good.
More Bonnie Jo Campbell Quotes
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I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they’re not being written about much anymore.
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The truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn’t very good.
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We know that we need to explore desire in fiction – many say that the only way a story exists is that a character feels a strong desire – and nature is the place where creatures act on their desires in the most pure way imaginable.
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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 hope that my stories serve as explorations and help show readers how and why real-life women don’t always make the “correct” decisions in the face of economic and sexual troubles.
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I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous.
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Where I live you’re not supposed to shoot a firearm within a quarter mile of a dwelling.
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Drugs and drinking affect every family I know, country and city, middle-class and poor.
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That’s where I live, a junkyard in a neighborhood of junkyards. We have three tractors from the 1940s and ’50s, several old pickup trucks, and a pile of scrap metal.
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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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I’m pro-life, in the sense that chaos seems like life to me and order seems like death.
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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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It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic-love or war or a giant asteroid.
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I was never a big reader as a kid. My imagination wasn’t captured by books very often. It was captured more often by boys and partying and riding horses.
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That was a mistake, I guess, going out to California. They have these things called guidance counselors in high school. They drink a lot of herbal tea.
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