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
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.
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.
writing married beats
You can't beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing.
writing years truth-is
The truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn't very good.
writing math thinking
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.
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 thinking specificity
I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.
writing character men
I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike, but women tend to think about more things at the same time, an overgeneralization, but I find it easier to make my male characters focus than I do my female characters.
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.
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.