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I was just about to earn my Master’s along the way, but I knew something was wrong because I found myself crying all the time.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

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
The truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn’t very good.
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Truth Writing Years
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
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 think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.
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Specificity Thinking 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
Time is never wasted coming to an old man bar.
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Bars Man Men Old
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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Three Tractors Truck
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
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
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
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.
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Jobs Real Thinking
I’m of the people in the bar and the people in my stories. They are my tribe.
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Bars People Stories
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
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
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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Class Ideas Thinking

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