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.
BONNIE JO CAMPBELLEighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I’ve heard.
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Men didn’t understand that you couldn’t let yourself be consumed with passion when there were so many people needing your attention, when there was so much work to do.
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I’m pro-life, in the sense that chaos seems like life to me and order seems like death.
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Time is never wasted coming to an old man bar.
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I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.
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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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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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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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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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I have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training.
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All those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns.
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I do different work, teaching and running around visiting universities and bookstores, and that prevents me from writing. But it’s nice to be wanted as a writer.
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Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I’ve heard.
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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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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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