I always think, when I'm in motion, writing seems like the most n... by Pam Houston

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

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I was in Mongolia, pretty extreme situations. We were sick with dysentery, we were sick with bronchitis. I had been bitten by a dog for the first time in my life and my whole hand was black, and there was no way to even think of getting a rabies shot without driving for five days, and then you wouldn't have wanted that needle in your skin anyway. And I had my period. Everything was wrong at one time. Like, I couldn't have been more uncomfortable. And I stayed up - it was too cold to sleep.

dog sleep thinking

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

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

beautiful-things beautiful

It would have been so perfectly ironic if I had been killed by the dog, because I was petting a dog who was not used to being pet, because I think I'm some kind of dog whisperer, and I think I can make any dog love me.

pet dog thinking

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.

pennsylvania who-i-am important

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

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

labyrinth mind giving

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

walking-meditation movement sitting

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

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

accuracy important stories

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

in general, I feel most comfortable between known quantities. by Pam Houston

in general, I feel most comfortable between known quantities.

quantity known feels

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.

motivation energy writing

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.

dollars bugs parent

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.

twenties islands years

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.

writing night mean

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.

home writing book

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.

gay determination thinking

Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant w... by Pam Houston

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

elegant courageous

There was something about the prairie for me—it wasn’t where I had come from, but when I moved there it just took me in and I knew I couldn’t ever stop living under that big sky.

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Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can... by Pam Houston

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

married lord writing

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

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

carrie september balance