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The truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn’t very good.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

$Bonnie Jo Campbell Quote - Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you’re often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.$

Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you’re often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.
BONNIE JO CAMPBELL

Help Math Thinking Writing
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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People School Writing
I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous.
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Adventurous Felt Obligation
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
Since I’m living with the violence and trouble in my brain, it’s kind of a relief to write about it, to get it on paper, to put it in context, to find meaning in it.
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Context Meaning Trouble Violence
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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All Course Guns Locked More Tight
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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Consume Men Passion Sleep Work
I realized that I was writing about folks with lots of skills, especially fix-it skills and survival skills, who were nonetheless not doing well in the new-millennium America.
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Country People Realized Skills Writing
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
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
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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Teaching Thinking Writing
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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Daily Donkeys Emergency Gardening Smell
Time is never wasted coming to an old man bar.
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Bars Man Men Old
The truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn’t very good.
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Truth Writing Years
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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Broken Decision Writing
I was never a big reader as a kid. My imagination wasn’t captured by books very often. It was captured more often by boys and partying and riding horses.
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Book Horse Party

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