There's this great Ron Carlson story, "A Note on the Type," and it's about this guy who keeps escaping from prison. He's really good at escaping, but he gets caught all the time, because he can't stop writing his name… — 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
