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Bonnie Jo Campbell

Drugs and drinking affect every family I know, country and city, middle-class and poor.
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Class Country Drinking
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
Time is never wasted coming to an old man bar.
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Bars Man Men Old
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
I have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training.
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Black Degrees Training
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
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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Humility Landscape People Speak
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
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
I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.
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Specificity Thinking Writing
I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous.
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Adventurous Felt Obligation
You can’t beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing.
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Beats Married Writing
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
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
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
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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Decision Economics Exploration Sexual Trouble

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