Quotes by Bonnie Jo Campbell

Bonnie Jo Campbell

A Life in Men is a joyful, ambitious novel that is also an adventure traversing three continents, as well as a meditation on love, sex, and, most important, friendship, which can overcome time, distance, and even death.

Adventure

Distance

Sex

After a year, it was great to get out of L.A. and return to Hyde Park. Since my grandparents lived in Hyde Park, I had been coming there since I was a tyke.

Grandparent

Hyde

Years

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.

Brain

Understanding

Writing

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.

Findings

Mind

Portions

Being five-foot-ten at fourteen years old was a little bit scary.

Feet

Scary

Years

Cocoa-buttered girls were stretched out on the public beach in apparently random alignments, but maybe if a weather satellite zoomed in on one of those bodies and then zoomed back out, the photos would show the curving beach itself was another woman, a fractal image made up of the particulate sunbathers. All the beaches pressed together might form female landmasses, female continents, female planets and galaxies. No wonder men felt tense.

Beach

Girl

Men

Drugs and drinking affect every family I know, country and city, middle-class and poor.

Class

Country

Drinking

Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I’ve heard.

Heard

Novel

Percent

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.

Car

Kings

Love

I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous.

Adventurous

Felt

Obligation

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Adventure

Adventurous

America

Animal

Bars

Beach

Beats

Beautiful

Brain

Broken

California

Car

Cautiousness

Chaos

Character

Children

Class

Country

Couple

Decision

Different

Different Experiences

Distance

Donkey

Drinking

Entertainment

Europe

Father

Feet

Felt

Fiction

Fighting

Findings

Four

Girl

Grandparent

Grew Up

Gun

Heard

Horse

Humility

Husband

Hyde

Ifs

Keys

Kings

Love

Luck

Married

Men

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Quotes by Bonnie Jo Campbell

Bonnie Jo Campbell

A Life in Men is a joyful, ambitious novel that is also an adventure traversing three continents, as well as a meditation on love, sex, and, most important, friendship, which can overcome time, distance, and even death.

After a year, it was great to get out of L.A. and return to Hyde Park. Since my grandparents lived in Hyde Park, I had been coming there since I was a tyke.

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.

Being five-foot-ten at fourteen years old was a little bit scary.

Drugs and drinking affect every family I know, country and city, middle-class and poor.

Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I’ve heard.

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.

I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous.

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