I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story. — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to… — 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
