Quotes by Writing 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. Bonnie Jo Campbell storieswritinganimal You can't beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing. Bonnie Jo Campbell marriedbeatswriting The great thing about fiction is that I don't have to settle on an answer to any troubling question, or even a solution. I hope that my stories serve as explorations and help show readers how and why real-life women don't always make the "correct" decisions in the face of economic and sexual troubles. We all screw up, but the women I write about don't have back-up plans or money in the back or resources to fix what they have broken. Bonnie Jo Campbell brokendecisionwriting Any of us who listen to the news or listen to stories our neighbors tell are accustomed to violence. We have to decide then to ignore the violence and create a gentler world in our fiction, or to heighten the violence through the use of point-of-view in order to explore it and gain some insight and understanding. Since I'm living with the violence and trouble in my brain, it's kind of a relief to write about it, to get it on paper, to put it in context, to find meaning in it. Bonnie Jo Campbell understandingbrainwriting 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. Bonnie Jo Campbell creatingwritingnumbers I was unhappy and I couldn't figure out what was the matter. And he told me to go take a writing course. And I didn't even know that one could learn to write in writing courses. Bonnie Jo Campbell unhappymatterwriting In fact, when I finally realized I was really going to write, when I was about thirty-four, I was working on my Ph.D. in Mathematics. I was just about to earn my Master's along the way, but I knew something was wrong because I found myself crying all the time. Bonnie Jo Campbell fourwritingway 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. Bonnie Jo Campbell get-betterwritingtrying My normal writing day involves three hours of actual writing, before noon, and the rest is just feeding the writing. There is teaching (so I can afford to write), travel to be planned and executed. There are dozens of emails daily, gardening, lots of dishes (where do all these dishes come from?), daily family emergencies, and, of course, the petting of the donkeys. The smell of donkeys is heavenly, and their he-honking is the sweetest music. I feel calm just thinking about them. Bonnie Jo Campbell teachingwritingthinking We need to step up our teaching so that our youth do more on their own to understand the doctrines of Christ and the reality of the Restoration, and we need to find a way to motivate them to write these things on the 'tablets of their hearts.' Bonnie L. Oscarson teachingheartwriting It's interesting, once I have convinced people that, yes, I have a sister with a mental disability, the retard jokes really dry up, so I'm not sure how much retard humor is really going on out there, but I imagine there's a lot because it's a pretty safe group to make fun of. It's not like the Retards of America are gonna rise up and organize a protest. They're not gonna write letters. They only just recently got the Supreme Court to stop executing them. Bonnie McFarlane dry-upwritingfun In my head, I wanted to be Madonna, but the music I was writing on paper was not what you'd choreograph dancers in costumes to. It was more coffee-house stuff. Bonnie McKee coffeehousewriting When I write for myself, I just get to be myself. Bonnie McKee writing When I go and write with other artists - a lot of the time it's with them - it's like a therapy session almost. I ask them what they're listening to and what they're going through and what their influences are and I try to get inside of their head and step into their shoes for a second. Bonnie McKee shoesartistwriting It's nice to really have the freedom to write what I want. Bonnie McKee nicewantwriting It's really liberating and fun to be writing stuff for myself, and really have the freedom to say what I want to say and not really have to think about what somebody else is going to say or have to edit myself to speak from someone else's vision. Bonnie McKee writingfunthinking I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots - whatever it is that little girls wanna sing about. Bonnie McKee writingsongkids It's just funny that anybody would care at all to take apart the words that I write. It's kind of cool! Bonnie McKee carekindwriting I love writing with Adam Lambert. He's really funny and very fun, he's a great friend. Bonnie McKee great-friendwritingfun I've always felt my spirit animal was a Tiger, so it's funny that now in 'Roar' with Katy Perry - which is a song we write together - there's the line: "I got the eye of the Tiger..." So I feel like there's a little bit of me in there. Bonnie McKee eyewritingsong«163164165166167168169170171172173»
