Bonnie Jo Campbell Quotes

I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be.

I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.

When I was in my 30s, I was at the end of a long-term relationship and going through a very hard time. I'd had about 15 different addresses and a series of relationships. I thought, 'It's time to have a look at yourself.'

I don't feel like a 40-year-old. I feel more like four 10-year-olds, each pulling in a different direction.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

By my mid-20s, I was a total mess.

I didn't want to be behind a desk. I didn't want to do a normal job. I had made my mind up. I became despondent prematurely. I had my mid-life crisis when I was 16. I suppose I'd agree with that. But acting has helped me develop a lot in my private life.

The last few weeks, it was as if someone had taken his life to pieces and let him see the way it worked.

Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.

I felt like I was literally losing myself as being the joyful, spiritual, passionate, exciting woman that I naturally had been.

...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.

I've not been right for any man or myself since I met you.

My sophomore English teacher encouraged me to write for the school paper, and that's what got me started. Suddenly it struck me that being a writer could be a romantic and adventurous position. Previously, I had thought I would be a tennis pro, giving lessons at a local club. I thought that would be a good life, and it might have been.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

I don't know what's wrong with me. It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart.

Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

I felt like I was a good woman, a good person. But I was sinking deeper and deeper into depression, because my soul wasn't living. I was purposely holding down my soul and my spirit. It was dying inside of me.

I was unhappy and I couldn't figure out what was the matter. And he told me to go take a writing course. And I didn't even know that one could learn to write in writing courses.

I did a law degree but was miserable the whole time. I was supposed to join a law firm in London but instead went to Oxford to do a master's in philosophy.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

There've been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

I got my family here and my career here and I'm sitting here in the middle, and I'm stuck. So I have to do something, you know, have to reach out and get some help.