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" I enjoy shooting. Around where I live, it's something you do for entertainment once in a while, you go out and shoot targets. "
Bonnie Jo Campbell
Live
You
Out
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" I've worked behind counters serving food, and I've lived on the circus train, and I've led bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and Russia. I've been a key liner for a newspaper, I've done typesetting. Oh, all sorts of things. "
Bonnie Jo Campbell
Key
Food
Done
" 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. "
Bonnie Jo Campbell
Me
Mother
Husband
" For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars. I watched the guy who tore apart the cars in the junkyard. I also wrote poems about those guys. I loved hanging around the yard. "
Bonnie Jo Campbell
King
Loved
American
" 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. "
Bonnie Jo Campbell
Good
Writing
Think
" 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
Reading
Me
Imagination
" I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal. "
Bonnie Jo Campbell
Think
Place
You
" 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. "
Bonnie Jo Campbell
Husband
Living
More
" 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. "
Bonnie Jo Campbell
People
Tough
Story
" A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things. "
Bonnie Jo Campbell
Only
Story
Things
" I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous. "
Bonnie Jo Campbell
Obligation
Weird
Always
" 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. "
Bonnie Jo Campbell
Winter
Cow
Food