I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of luck.

- Bonnie Jo Campbell

There were a lot of beautiful, thin people out there driving nice cars. It was a whole different experience being in L.A.

- Bonnie Jo Campbell

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 oth…

- Bonnie Jo Campbell

I figure that I'm always going to be fine, one way or another, but I do worry about other people who have difficulty moving from one world to the nex…

- Bonnie Jo Campbell

I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike, but women tend to think about more th…

- Bonnie Jo Campbell

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 th…

- Bonnie Jo Campbell

Some people tell me they would be afraid of my characters, but I tell those people [that] they meet these characters all the time. They just don't ca…

- Bonnie Jo Campbell

Time is never wasted coming to an old man bar.

- Bonnie Jo Campbell

I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.

- Bonnie Jo Campbell