Pam Houston Quotes about Writing

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 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, Things In Life

There's this great Ron Carlson story, "A Note on the Type," and it's about this guy who keeps escaping from prison. He's really good at escaping, but he gets caught all the time, because he can't stop writing his name on underpasses where he's running from the law. And there's this whole beautiful paragraph about how to run is to write. And, you know, it's obviously about the writer's life.

Pam Houston

Beautiful, Running, Writing

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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.

Pam Houston

Book, Home, Writing

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

Pam Houston

Writing, Thinking, Natural

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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

Motivation, Writing, Energy

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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.

Pam Houston

Writing, Mean, Night

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

Pam Houston

Teaching, Writing, Priorities

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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.

Pam Houston

Home, Writing, Going Out

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