Pam Houston famous quotes

04-17-2025

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

#Writing #Light #Trying
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

#Book #School #Thinking
Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer.
-- Pam Houston

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

#Feelings #Said #Feels
Sometimes no matter how well you prepare, no matter how conservative your decision making, no matter how few Y chromosomes are along on your trip, you can still find yourself in a mud slide or a hurricane without a dry piece of clothing to your name. But those of us who have given our time and usually our hearts to outdoorsmen over the years know that, for many of them, it's not really a wilderness trip unless, MacGyver-like, they have to make a fire out of a pair of shorts, a glow stick, and a ketchup bottle; it's not really an adventure until someone gets airlifted out.
-- Pam Houston

#Heart #Adventure #Years
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

#Dog #Life Changing #Half
The more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn't be around much anymore, I was a little bit afraid the new Lucy hadn't yet shown up.
-- Pam Houston

#Fear #Important #Littles
I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth.
-- Pam Houston

#Facts #Telling The Truth #Investment
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 me.
-- Pam Houston

#People #Trying #Layers
There was something about the prairie for meâ€”it wasnâ€™t where I had come from, but when I moved there it just took me in and I knew I couldnâ€™t ever stop living under that big sky.
-- Pam Houston

#Sky #Prairie #Bigs
There are three principles to remember if you are to teach a human being anything, and they are consistency, consistency, consistency.They are such fragile creatures to begin with, with poor eyes, poorer hearing, and no sense of smell left to speak of, it's no wonder they are made of fear. Some centuries ago they moved inside and with that move went nine-tenths of their intuition. It is almost unmerciful to make them live so long when they spend their lives in so much pain.
-- Pam Houston

#Pain #Moving #Eye
It's September 21st, a day I love for the balance it carries with it.
-- Pam Houston

#Balance #September
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

#Heart #Mind #Plans
Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.
-- Pam Houston

#Life #Giving #Receiving
Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.
-- Pam Houston

#Writing #Married #Lord
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.
-- Pam Houston

#Loss #Opportunity #Self

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