Quotes by Liza Campbell

Liza Campbell

[Ivy Wilkes] loves [Georgia] O’Keeffe’s work, but is not satisfied by just looking at the paintings; she wants the painting to be her own. The plot grew naturally out of Ivy’s personality (and flaws).

Georgia O Keeffe

Ivy

Personality

At the beginning of the book [The Dissemblers], Ivy [Wilkes] has a long way to go in order to achieve self-sufficiency. Although she is very independent, even somewhat of a loner, she is very affected by other peoples’ opinions. At the opening of the book, her ideas of success and achievement are largely defined by the approval of others; over the arc of the story, I think that begins to change a little.

Book

Independent

Thinking

At the end, I cobbled scenes all together and smoothed out the transitions as much as possible. Incidentally, I would not recommend this approach to writing a book, and will probably not write that way again!

Book

Together

Writing

Because Ivy [Wilkes] is just starting out as an artist, I wanted to focus on [Georgia] O’Keeffe’s experiences when she was just starting out. I suspect there is a difference between being an unknown artist and being a celebrated artist. When nobody knows your work, nobody except you really cares whether or not you paint.

Artist

Differences

Ivy

Does art play a role in the greater good of society, or does it just promote the satisfaction of the artist? I go back and forth on that question.

Art

Doe

Play

Finally, I found a wonderful agent who wanted to work with me, and she sent it to one billion publishers and received one billion rejections, until I was fortunate enough to be matched up with the Permanent Press.

Agents

Rejection

Wonderful

From beginning to end, the novel [Dissemblers] took about three and a half years to write. I didn’t write it chronologically.

Three

Writing

Years

I am a tragically bad artist.

Artist

I am currently in nursing school, so one day I will be both a nurse and a writer.

Nurse

Nursing

School

I did make several trips to the very wonderful [Georgia] O’Keeffe museum. Besides the art (my favorite paintings are from her Pelvis series) my favorite thing about the museum is the architecture. I love how enormously tall the doors are – it is like going into a church. There is also something home-like about the layout of the museum. I wish I could live there!

Art

Home

Museums

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Excited

Father

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Flower

Frustrated

Frustration

Georgia O Keeffe

Girl

Grace

Growing Up

Hard Times

Hard Work

Home

Homesick

Honestly

Independent

Inspiration

Ivy

Jealous

Jobs

Letters

Luck

Mexico

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Nursing

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Quotes by Liza Campbell

Liza Campbell

[Ivy Wilkes] loves [Georgia] O’Keeffe’s work, but is not satisfied by just looking at the paintings; she wants the painting to be her own. The plot grew naturally out of Ivy’s personality (and flaws).

At the end, I cobbled scenes all together and smoothed out the transitions as much as possible. Incidentally, I would not recommend this approach to writing a book, and will probably not write that way again!

Does art play a role in the greater good of society, or does it just promote the satisfaction of the artist? I go back and forth on that question.

Finally, I found a wonderful agent who wanted to work with me, and she sent it to one billion publishers and received one billion rejections, until I was fortunate enough to be matched up with the Permanent Press.

From beginning to end, the novel [Dissemblers] took about three and a half years to write. I didn’t write it chronologically.

I am a tragically bad artist.

I am currently in nursing school, so one day I will be both a nurse and a writer.

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