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The best and easiest lesson for me was to learn that writing is mostly hard work.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
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Bonnie Jo Campbell
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 14
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Kalamazoo
Michigan
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Nobody tells young writers it's okay if you're not very good, you'll get better. So I just thought I'm not very good, so I should try to do every other thing besides writing. That's how I ended up being a hitchhiker, a world traveler, and a mathematician.
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I read stories aloud at every stage. I listen to my writer friends when they kindly offer criticism. I listen to my husband when he tells me something doesn't seem right. I have my mother's boyfriend, Loring Janes, read to make sure I get everything right with the machines and guns.
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I think back when I was kind of a crappy writer, I really did know my time was better spent working and having adventures and seeing the world.
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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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Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard.
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Some people tell me they would be afraid of my characters, but I tell those people [that] they meet these characters all the time. They just don't care about them when they meet them, at the gas station, the car wash, the post office even.
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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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We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar to the one Annie Oakley had, and my husband has a .357 Magnum pistol. 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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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.
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Being five-foot-ten at fourteen years old was a little bit scary.
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I grew up with donkeys, as well as horses, but I'm more interested in donkeys.
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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. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter.
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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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