“For the people of my country," Renato said, "water is everything: love, life, religion... even God." "It is like that for me too," I said. "In English we call that a metaphor." "Of course," said Renato, "and water is the… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and that's fine.… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing. — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer. — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
Sometimes no matter how well you prepare, no matter how conservative your decision making, no matter how few Y chromosomes are along on your… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
Stillness is a harder concept for me than ecstasy, but I can imagine it best when I am fully present and paying strict attention… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
“I still don't see how it would make me feel any better to think of the pain in my hip and spine as anything… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
My parents were travelers. Every time my parents got ten dollars ahead they went somewhere. That's what they did. So I got the bug… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
“Find yourself a place in the universe,' she said, 'a place where the dirt feels like goodness under your feet. Take the right picture… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
I always think, when I'm in motion, writing seems like the most natural thing. — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
I'm about going out in the world and noticing stuff, and going home and writing it down, and putting it next to other stuff… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
“And even though I knew in my head there’s nothing a man can do that a woman can’t, I also knew in my heart… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching. — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
