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

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Pam Houston is an American author born on January 9, 1962. Her works are characterized by their natural setting and exploration of human emotions and survival states. Her unique writing style has won her a dedicated following. more

“Every day at about four o'clock, I would go up to a farmhouse - or whatever kind of house was around - and knock on the door and say, "Hi, I'm biking across Canada, and I'm wondering if I could pitch my tent on your land." And sometimes people slammed the door in my face, but the vast majority of the time they said, "Of course," and then they said, "Come for dinner," and then they packed me food the next day and fed me breakfast and sometimes they got out the bottle of wine they'd been saving for a special occasion.”

“I've always traveled. I'm a professor in a limited way. I teach one class two quarters out of four, so I get traveling done.”

Way Two Done Class Teach Four Professors Quarters Traveled

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.”

Writing Sometimes Teach Teaching Priorities

Author:Pam Houston

“I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful I'm a good piano player, I can sing well, I write good songs. If you don't like it, fair enough. But give me a break.”

Ifs Giving Writing Wells I Can Sometimes Enough Song Break Player Fairs Criticism Give Me Cups Tea Piano Respectful Hurtful Cups Of Tea Be Respectful

Author:Elton John

“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 Mean Sometimes Night Class Week Periods Ten Patient University Magazines Be Patient Somewhere Else Assignments Thursday Thursday Night

Author:Pam Houston

“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.”

Years Used My Friends Twenties Islands Passed Away Bahamas

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“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.”

Parent Ten Dollars Traveler Bugs

Author:Pam Houston

“I write really well on the road.”

Writing Wells

Author:Pam Houston

“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.”

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Has Beens I Can Used Dog Pet Ironic Dog Love

Author:Pam Houston

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