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I figure that I’m always going to be fine, one way or another, but I do worry about other people who have difficulty moving from one world to the next. It’s the folks who are truly invested in their lives who have the hardest time with change.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

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
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
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
Time is never wasted coming to an old man bar.
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Bars Man Men Old
I’m very interested in people who are in a situation that needs a little puzzling out. The thing that gets me started on a story is a person in a tough situation.
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Interested Puxxling Situation Tough
So maybe nature also works as a metaphor for whatever emotional troubles my characters have to negotiate. I’m interested in my characters as survivors, and maybe that works best when the old-fashioned notion of humans surviving in wilderness is not too far away.
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Best Character Emotional Fashioned Interested Old Work
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
I figure that I’m always going to be fine, one way or another, but I do worry about other people who have difficulty moving from one world to the next. It’s the folks who are truly invested in their lives who have the hardest time with change.
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Change Hardest Moving People Worry
I can’t personally drink or fight too much nowadays because I have to be perky in the morning in order to write.
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Fighting Morning Writing
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 have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training.
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Black Degrees Training
I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.
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Specificity Thinking Writing
I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they’re not being written about much anymore.
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Needs People Writing
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’ve worked behind counters serving food, and I’ve lived on the circus train, and I’ve led bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and Russia. I’ve been a key liner for a newspaper, I’ve done typesetting. Oh, all sorts of things.
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Country Keys People Worked
Any of us who listen to the news or listen to stories our neighbors tell are accustomed to violence.
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Brain Understanding Writing

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