Bonnie Jo Campbell
Bonnie Jo Campbell
Bonnie Jo Campbellis an American novelist and short story writer. Her most recent work is Mothers, Tell Your Daughters, published with W.W. Norton and Company...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
beautiful nice different-experiences
There were a lot of beautiful, thin people out there driving nice cars. It was a whole different experience being in L.A.
fall rivers film
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.
animal misunderstood world
Donkeys are the most misunderstood and abused animals around the world.
writing luck ifs
I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of luck.
jobs real thinking
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.
dwelling miles quarters
Where I live you're not supposed to shoot a firearm within a quarter mile of a dwelling.
mind portions findings
As a writer, I can live somewhat independently, occupying nooks and crannies and finding meaning there. I can even live in my mind a good portion of most days.
writing self my-own
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.
morning writing fighting
I can't personally drink or fight too much nowadays because I have to be perky in the morning in order to write.
writing skills america
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.
writing creating numbers
I wasn't writing stories with the intention of creating a particular collection. I simply wrote stories, and then discovered common themes among a good number of them.
training black weapons
I have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training.
novel heard eighty
Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard.
horse book party
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.