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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

Topics: Acres Beef Cattle Cheap Chickens Cold Cow Dad Feed Five Food Free Got Had Heated Horse House Kicked Kids Little Lived Mom Order Our Out Pigs Raised She Stayed Them Then Us Winter Wood

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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

Topics: Annie Couple Course Englishman Father-In-Law Get Guns Had Husband Inherited Living Locked Locked Up More Paranoid Pistol Real Rifle Shotgun Similar Texas Than Those Tight Up Use

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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

Topics: Balkans Been Behind Bicycle Circus Done Eastern Eastern Europe Europe Food Key Led Lived Newspaper Oh Russia Serving Sort Things Tours Train Worked

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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

Topics: About Anymore Being Gets Interested Little Me Mostly Much Needs Out People Person Poor Puzzling Situation Somehow Started Story Thing Tough Very Who Working Write Written

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I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous.

~Bonnie Jo Campbell

Topics: Adventurous Always Felt Obligation Weird

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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

Topics: About Beautiful Finished Many Mathematical One Thing Only Proof Really Story Thing Things You

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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

Topics: Aloud Boyfriend Criticism Every Everything Friends Get Guns He Husband Kindly Listen Machines Make Me Mother Offer Read Right Seem Something Stage Stories Sure Tells Writer

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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

Topics: About Also American Apart Around Car Customers Deal Driver Guy Guys Hanging Him Hook King Local Loved Poems Rode Those Up Watched Who Wrote Yard

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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

Topics: Around Enjoy Entertainment Go Live Once Out Shoot Shooting Something Targets Where While You

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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

Topics: Although Become Come Critic Ego Get Good Helped Just Less Little Math Me Myself Often Personally Right Think Trying Up Wrapped Writing Wrong You I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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