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 CAMPBELLBeing five-foot-ten at fourteen years old was a little bit scary.
More Bonnie Jo Campbell Quotes
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Men didn’t understand that you couldn’t let yourself be consumed with passion when there were so many people needing your attention, when there was so much work to do.
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I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.
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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’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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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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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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Drugs and drinking affect every family I know, country and city, middle-class and poor.
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I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they’re not being written about much anymore.
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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.
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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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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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The truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn’t very good.
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I’m of the people in the bar and the people in my stories. They are my tribe.
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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 have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training.
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