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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 customers and hook up the cars.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

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
The truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn’t very good.
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Truth Writing Years
Being five-foot-ten at fourteen years old was a little bit scary.
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Feet Scary Years
$Bonnie Jo Campbell Quote - Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you’re often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.$

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
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.
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Dad Horse Kicked Kids Mom Order
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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All Course Guns Locked More Tight
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
Mostly the natural landscapes work as a sounding board for my characters, so they can understand themselves, and it acts as a mirror in which we readers see ourselves.
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Character Different World
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
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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Character Emotional Strong
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 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
For ‘King Cole’s American Salvage,’ I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars.
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Car Hook Kings Love Watched
We all screw up, but the women I write about don’t have back-up plans or money in the back or resources to fix what they have broken.
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Broken Money Plan Resources Screw
Time is never wasted coming to an old man bar.
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Bars Man Men Old
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

For ‘King Cole’s American Salvage,’ I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars.

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