Pam Houston Quotes

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

When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks. — Pam Houston

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

Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer. — Pam Houston

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 from them. — Pam Houston

Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right. — Penn Jillette

There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback. — Mary McCormack

I write really well on the road. — Pam Houston

His name was Zeke, short for Ezekiel. She asked him if he was religious, he said only about certain things. — Pam Houston

Enemies are an indication of character. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

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

Enclose your heart in times of need with the steel of your determination and your strength. In doing this, all things will be bearable. — Lora Leigh

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 don't think i will ever shake. — Pam Houston

If a situation requires swearing to God it is - by definition - extreme. — Pam Houston

I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth. — Pam Houston

One thing I'm always thinking about myself is what am I willing to make up? And the answer is not much. — Pam Houston

Writers, it is said, all carry a chip of ice in their hearts — Pam Houston

Dogs change lives. Half Buddha, half Bozo, they keep us tethered to the earth, and teach us to fly. Our dogs are our sanity keepers. — Pam Houston

I'm always out looking for weird, beautiful things. — Pam Houston

We're gifted," I explained. — Gordon Korman

You have to concentrate on the swing. — Miguel Cabrera

We are up in the attic doing a jigsaw puzzle, which may be the single fastest way one OCD person reveals herself to another. — Pam Houston

I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by. — Janelle Monae

I will never regret not having children. What I regret is that I live in a world where in spite of everything, that decision is still not quite okay. — Pam Houston

Adversity makes me hungrier. I thrive on being able to make a way out of No Way. — Adrian Peterson

For me, the shaping of the story is more important than accuracy. — Pam Houston

Anything you need, anything you want, say the words. I will do everything I can for you. — Kiera Cass

I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings ... — Pam Houston

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

We only have ten years to save the oceans — Ted Danson

If she says "I love you," and I say "I know," that's beautiful and acceptable and funny. — Chris Taylor

The Universe has a plan to make sure we don't ever stop learning, not only in our minds, but also in our hearts. — Pam Houston

Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing. — Pam Houston

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

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

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

Give me a labyrinth to walk and I can usually free my mind. — Pam Houston

We will never know how much just a simple smile will do. — Mother Teresa