All those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns.
BONNIE JO CAMPBELLAll those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns.
More Bonnie Jo Campbell Quotes
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I like living near my family, and near the people I understand the best. The landscape of Michigan speaks to me, and the humility and humor of the people here makes sense. It just feels right to live here, in a place where I don’t dare put on airs.
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I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous.
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Any of us who listen to the news or listen to stories our neighbors tell are accustomed to violence.
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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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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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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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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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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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You can’t beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing.
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Time is never wasted coming to an old man bar.
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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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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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Nobody tells young writers it’s okay if you’re not very good, you’ll get better. So I just thought I’m not very good, so I should try to do every other thing besides writing. That’s how I ended up being a hitchhiker, a world traveler, and a mathematician.
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Being five-foot-ten at fourteen years old was a little bit scary.
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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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