Pam Houston Quotes - Page 2

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• I write well on the road. I have the energy, I have the motivation to write. I'm happy when I'm on the road.

  Pam Houston

  Motivation, Writing, Energy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.

  Pam Houston

  Writing, Married, Lord

  Pam Houston (1999). “Waltzing the Cat”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• I always think, when I'm in motion, writing seems like the most natural thing.

  Pam Houston

  Writing, Thinking, Natural

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sometimes I'm writing for magazines on assignment, but the university has to be patient with me. I mean, during the ten-week periods that I have a class, I'm there every Thursday night or whatever it is, but sometimes that's all I'm there, because I'm somewhere else the rest of the time.

  Pam Houston

  Writing, Mean, Night

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.

  Pam Houston

  Teaching, Writing, Priorities

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've always traveled. I'm a professor in a limited way. I teach one class two quarters out of four, so I get traveling done.

  Pam Houston

  Class, Two, Done

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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 I've noticed and seeing what happens.

  Pam Houston

  Home, Writing, Going Out

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• Movement helps keep me centered. I am a disaster, for instance, at sitting meditation, but I'm pretty decent at walking meditation.

  Pam Houston

  Walking Meditation, Sitting, Movement

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's September 21st, a day I love for the balance it carries with it.

  Pam Houston

  Balance, September, Carrie

  Pam Houston (1999). “Waltzing the Cat”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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• Being in the presence of the "other" seems to show me who I am in a way that is really important to me. I feel radically more comfortable in Laos, say, than I do in Pennsylvania.

  Pam Houston

  Who I Am, Important, Pennsylvania

  Source: therumpus.net

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• in general, I feel most comfortable between known quantities.

  Pam Houston

  Feels, Quantity, Known

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Praise Roxane Gay for her big-hearted self-examining intelligence, for her inclusive and forgiving stance, for her courage and determination . . . for saying out loud the things we were thinking, for guiding us back to ourselves and returning to us what was ours all along.

  Pam Houston

  Determination, Gay, Thinking

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• I'm always out looking for weird, beautiful things.

  Pam Houston

  Beautiful, Beautiful Things

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer.

  Pam Houston

  Courageous, Elegant

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• 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. But all that initial creation of the early drafts, I'd just as soon write it on the road in any extreme place. That's sort of ideal.

  Pam Houston

  Book, Home, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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