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When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

In a regular class I don’t focus on the form, but I think that focus is helpful for brainstorming and coming up with ideas quickly, especially with autobiographical material.
BONNIE JO CAMPBELL

Class Ideas Thinking
It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic-love or war or a giant asteroid.
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Character Fighting War
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
The natural world is the place into which all my characters have to situate themselves in order to be who they really are, and that makes my rural fiction feel different from a lot of urban fiction.
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Character Function Order Themselves Urban
A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you’re finished, it’s really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.
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Beautiful Proof Stories
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
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.
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Much Own Self Writing
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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California Mistake School
My donkeys are Jack and Don Quixote. They’re very smart, very cautious. Much of what people consider stubbornness in donkeys is actually cautiousness.
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Cautiousness People Smart
I’ve worked behind counters serving food, and I’ve lived on the circus train, and I’ve led bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and Russia. I’ve been a key liner for a newspaper, I’ve done typesetting. Oh, all sorts of things.
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Country Keys People Worked
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
My normal writing day involves three hours of actual writing, before noon, and the rest is just feeding the writing. There is teaching (so I can afford to write), travel to be planned and executed.
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Teaching Thinking Writing
In fact, when I finally realized I was really going to write, when I was about thirty-four, I was working on my Ph.D. in Mathematics.
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Fact Four Realized Way Writing
I’m very interested in people who are in a situation that needs a little puzzling out. The thing that gets me started on a story is a person in a tough situation.
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Interested Puxxling Situation Tough
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

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