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. Bonnie Jo Campbell More Quotes by Bonnie Jo Campbell More Quotes From Bonnie Jo Campbell I was never a big reader as a kid. My imagination wasn't captured by books very often. It was captured more often by boys and partying and riding horses. Bonnie Jo Campbell horse party book In a regular class I don't focus on the form, but I think that focus is helpful for brainstorming and coming up with ideas quickly, especially with autobiographical material. Bonnie Jo Campbell class ideas thinking I like to go where the life is. Bonnie Jo Campbell life-is I'm pro-life, in the sense that chaos seems like life to me and order seems like death. Bonnie Jo Campbell chaos pro-life order 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 teaching writing thinking I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo? Bonnie Jo Campbell place me reading imagination
