Quotes by Pam Houston

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.

Dog

Half

Life Changing

Every day at about four o’clock, I would go up to a farmhouse – or whatever kind of house was around – and knock on the door and say, “Hi, I’m biking across Canada, and I’m wondering if I could pitch my tent on your land.” And sometimes people slammed the door in my face, but the vast majority of the time they said, “Of course,” and then they said, “Come for dinner,” and then they packed me food the next day and fed me breakfast and sometimes they got out the bottle of wine they’d been saving for a special occasion.

Doors

Next Day

Wine

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

Giving

Labyrinth

Mind

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.

Light

Things In Life

Writing

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

Natural

Thinking

Writing

I love the Bahamas, and I used to go there all the time with my friend who passed away, Henry. And I love it there, especially that island [Grand Exuma], so I’ve been there a lot over the twenty years.

Islands

Twenties

Years

I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation; that love and loss conjoined are the best opportunity we get to live fully, to be our strongest, our most compassionate, our most graceful selves.

Loss

Opportunity

Self

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.

Energy

Motivation

Writing

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.

Going Out

Home

Writing

I’m not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth.

Facts

Investment

Telling The Truth

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Answers

Balance

Beautiful

Book

Bugs

Carrie

Determination

Dog

Dollars

Doors

Energy

Eye

Facts

Feelings

Feels

Gay

Giving

Going Out

Half

Heart

Home

Investment

Islands

Labyrinth

Life Changing

Light

Loss

Mean

Mind

Motivation

Moving

Natural

Next Day

Night

Opportunity

Pain

Parent

Pet

Plans

Priorities

Running

Said

School

Self

September

Teaching

Telling The Truth

Things In Life

Thinking

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Quotes by Pam Houston

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.

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

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.

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

I love the Bahamas, and I used to go there all the time with my friend who passed away, Henry. And I love it there, especially that island [Grand Exuma], so I’ve been there a lot over the twenty years.

I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation; that love and loss conjoined are the best opportunity we get to live fully, to be our strongest, our most compassionate, our most graceful selves.

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.

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.

I’m not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth.

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