“I read stories aloud at every stage. I listen to my writer friends whe...” — Bonnie Jo Campbell Quote

“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.”

“I enjoy shooting. Around where I live, it's something you do for entertainment once in a while, you go out and shoot targets.”

“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.”

“In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three.”

“I saw tough times, and there were many nights when I would just cry out aloud.”

“For years I felt like the ugly one in Girls Aloud.”