I’m pro-life, in the sense that chaos seems like life to me and order seems like death.
BONNIE JO CAMPBELLAfter 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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Drugs and drinking affect every family I know, country and city, middle-class and poor.
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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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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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The truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn’t very good.
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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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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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As a writer, I can live somewhat independently, occupying nooks and crannies and finding meaning there. I can even live in my mind a good portion of most days.
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I have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training.
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I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.
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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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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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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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There are dozens of emails daily, gardening, lots of dishes (where do all these dishes come from?), daily family emergencies, and, of course, the petting of the donkeys. The smell of donkeys is heavenly, and their he-honking is the sweetest music. I feel calm just thinking about them.
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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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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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