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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.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

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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Dad Horse Kicked Kids Mom Order
Drugs and drinking affect every family I know, country and city, middle-class and poor.
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Class Country Drinking
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
I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they’re not being written about much anymore.
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Needs People Writing
That’s why I have to be a fiction writer, because I can’t remember what just happened or where I went last week or what movie I just watched with my husband. I’m better off just making things up.
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Fiction Husband Lasts
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
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
It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic-love or war or a giant asteroid.
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Character Fighting War
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
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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Character Function Order Themselves Urban
I have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training.
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Black Degrees Training
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
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
After a year, it was great to get out of L.A. and return to Hyde Park. Since my grandparents lived in Hyde Park, I had been coming there since I was a tyke.
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Grandparent Hyde Years
$Bonnie Jo Campbell Quote - Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you’re often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.$

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.
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Help Math Thinking Writing
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

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