“I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.” Quote by Francis Bacon
“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.” WritingWellsAmericaSkillsSurvivalFolksI RealizedMillenniumSurvival Skills Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“Drugs and drinking affect every family I know, country and city, middle-class and poor.” KnowsCountryPoorCitiesClassMiddleDrugDrinkingMiddle Class Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“I can't personally drink or fight too much nowadays because I have to be perky in the morning in order to write.” WritingI CanOrderFightingMorningToo MuchDrinkPerky Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“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.” WritingSelfMy Own Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“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.” PeopleWorldWayMovingNextWorryFiguresFineDifficultyFolksHardestOne WayHardest Times Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“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.” MindI CanFindingsPortions Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“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.” PeopleCharacterWould BeCareCarOfficeDon't CarePostsGasStationsPost OfficeGas StationsCar Wash Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“The best and easiest lesson for me was to learn that writing is mostly hard work.” WritingHardHard WorkLessons Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“Maybe the hardest lesson is the one I have to learn over and over again, that each story is its own animal, that every story I write is going to come only with difficulty.” WritingStoriesAnimalLessonsDifficultyHardest Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“You can't beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing.” WritingMarriedBeatsBeing MarriedSonnet Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell