“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.” WorldWritingHomeHappensNextStuffSeeingDown AndGoing OutNoticingGoing Home Author:Pam Houston
“Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.” WritingSometimesTeachTeachingPriorities Author:Pam Houston
“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.” WritingMeanSometimesNightClassWeekPeriodsTenPatientUniversityMagazinesBe PatientSomewhere ElseAssignmentsThursdayThursday Night Author:Pam Houston
“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.” WritingWellsMotivationEnergy Author:Pam Houston
“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.” KnowsWritingWholeStoriesRunningBeautifulLawGuyNamesTypePrisonNotesCaughtThis GuyEscapingParagraphCarlson Author:Pam Houston
“I always think, when I'm in motion, writing seems like the most natural thing.” ThinkingWritingSeemsNaturalNatural Things Author:Pam Houston
“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.” WritingBookHomeHoursStageCreationFineIdealsFinalsExtremesInitialsSeventeen Author:Pam Houston
“Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.” WritingSaidI CanLordNovelMarried Book:Waltzing the Cat Source: Waltzing the Cat
“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.” WritingTryingStoriesBigsLightBreakStudentsTinyUnexpectedThings In LifeMake Or BreakTiny Things Author:Pam Houston
