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.
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
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 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 ar… - Pam Houston
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 ar…
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've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings.
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
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.
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 celloph… - Pam Houston
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 celloph…
Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing. - Pam Houston
Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.
Movement helps keep me centered. I am a disaster, for instance, at sitting meditation, but I'm pretty decent at walking meditation. - Pam Houston
Movement helps keep me centered. I am a disaster, for instance, at sitting meditation, but I'm pretty decent at walking meditation.
Give me a labyrinth to walk and I can usually free my mind. - Pam Houston
Give me a labyrinth to walk and I can usually free my mind.
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 st… - Pam Houston
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 st…
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