Quotes by Liza Campbell - Page 1

I am a tragically bad artist.
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Publishing requires a lot of persistence and a fair amount of luck.
Liza Campbell / Artist
Luck
Persistence
Publishing
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I've spent many a day worrying that I will never be able to write again!
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Able
Worry
Writing
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I am currently in nursing school, so one day I will be both a nurse and a writer.
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Nurse
Nursing
School
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I lived in New Mexico until I was seventeen, and honestly I've been homesick ever since I left.
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Homesick
Honestly
Mexico
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The book [The Dissemblers] officially came out two weeks after my thirtieth birthday...am I still young?
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Book
Two
Week
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I do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?
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Art
Selfish
Thinking
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The motivation to paint seems more pure, or at least more personal, when the artist is doing it for herself.
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Artist
Motivation
Paint
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When I finished the book [The Dissemblers], I sent it to one billion agents, and got one billion rejections.
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Agents
Book
Rejection
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Now I am as big of an [ Georgia] O'Keeffe admirer as Ivy [Wilkes] is, but that came through writing the book.
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Book
Ivy
Writing
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From beginning to end, the novel [Dissemblers] took about three and a half years to write. I didn't write it chronologically.
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Three
Writing
Years
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I tend to only write productively for one to two hours per day, so there is plenty of time left over for me to work a day job!
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Jobs
Two
Writing
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I was loosely aware that most of my characters were fundamentally selfish people, but I didn't intentionally make that a theme.
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Character
People
Selfish
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I find that time constraints actually make me more productive, and "real world" experiences provide a lot of inspiration to write.
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Inspiration
Real
Writing
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I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and asking them silly questions.
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Book
School
Silly
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I read letters and journal entries by [Georgia] O'Keeffe (which were infinitely more useful than any critical analysis of her work).
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Critical Analysis
Georgia O Keeffe
Letters
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Yet [Georgia O'Keeffe ] always stayed true to her vision, and was at times uncompromising in following the path she saw for herself.
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Georgia O Keeffe
Path
Vision
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I started writing about New Mexico in an autobiography class I was taking for school, and realized that it was very inspiring place for me.
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Class
School
Writing
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I knew the basic outline of the novel [The Dissemblers] and would write whatever scene of the book I felt particularly excited about at the time.
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Book
Excited
Writing
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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.
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Art
Doe
Play
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I hope to work through disappointment and frustration with as much grace as [Georgia] O'Keeffe did, and I hope to have the same confidence in my own vision.
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Disappointment
Frustration
Grace
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Writing a book set in New Mexico was partially a way to express my own love for the state, and partially a way to prudently follow the advice to write what you know.
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Advice
Book
Writing
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This was my first novel [The Dissemblers ]. I've never seriously written short stories, and actually find short stories much more intimidating as an art form than novels.
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Art
Firsts
Stories
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I was envious of [Vincent] Van Gogh because I could never make a painting that beautiful! (Ridiculous, I know.) That was when the character of Ivy [Wilkes] began to take shape for me.
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Beautiful
Character
Ivy
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One thing that was inspiring to me in my research about [Georgia] O'Keeffe was to learn that in addition to her success she had very hard times, and times when she was frustrated and uninspired.
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Frustrated
Georgia O Keeffe
Hard Times
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[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).
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Georgia O Keeffe
Ivy
Personality
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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!
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Book
Together
Writing
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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.
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Agents
Rejection
Wonderful
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I was at an art museum with my parents, and was quite taken with a [Vincent] Van Gogh painting. I stood admiring the painting for some time, and then realized that in addition to feeling moved by the beauty of the painting, I felt a little jealous of the painter.
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Art
Jealous
Museums
Taken
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When Ivy [Wilkes] begins her work in forgery, she doesn't yet know the toll that it will take on her own original work. She even thinks it might be a way to find inspiration. By the time she realizes that she has lost her own voice, she is thoroughly entangled in the forgery mess.
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Inspiration
Ivy
Thinking
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I was only loosely aware of [Georgia] O'Keeffe's work. Primarily, I had seen her famous paintings of skulls with flowers, which are not my favorite. I didn't really become familiar with her work until after I started writing the book, but the more I learned about her the more I admired her.
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Book
Flower
Writing
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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.
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Artist
Differences
Ivy
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Ivy [Wilkes] does exhibit a certain impatience at the beginning of the book [The Dissemblers]. She doesn't want to wait through years of hard work and insignificance to make her mark on the art world. Part of her growth is in realizing - even embracing - that the process of art is more important than the product or the recognition.
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Art
Book
Hard Work
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I'm working on a novel about a girl who grows up in the circus and her relationship with her father, who grew up in Hungary when it was under Soviet control and left during the 1956 revolution. It is told from both of their perspectives, and has been a joy (and very frustrating) to research and write. Needless to say, I am very excited about my next project!
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Girl
Father
Growing Up
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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!
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Art
Home
Museums
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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.
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Book
Independent
Thinking
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