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
moving worry people
I figure that I'm always going to be fine, one way or another, but I do worry about other people who have difficulty moving from one world to the next. It's the folks who are truly invested in their lives who have the hardest time with change.
people stories tribes
I'm of the people in the bar and the people in my stories. They are my tribe.
people want nonfiction
People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.
school writing people
I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny columns.
writing people needs
I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. 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.
years feet scary
Being five-foot-ten at fourteen years old was a little bit scary.
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.
jobs couple writing
Weirdly the writing experience has not really changed that much except it used to be that I was busy because I had to work a couple of jobs to earn money, so I didn't have time to write.
men bars old-man
Time is never wasted coming to an old man bar.
husband fiction lasts
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.
three truck tractors
That's where I live, a junkyard in a neighborhood of junkyards. We have three tractors from the 1940s and '50s, several old pickup trucks, and a pile of scrap metal.
animal misunderstood world
Donkeys are the most misunderstood and abused animals around the world.
horse donkey grew
I grew up with donkeys, as well as horses, but I'm more interested in donkeys.
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.