61 Quotes by Pam Houston

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

I’m not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth.

I write really well on the road.

Remember this remember this remember this the next time you think it’s over, because some man, or some hope, or some life takes away instead of gives. Remember this and get on an airplane, a small one if possible, because it always works.

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

Could a person mourn and be joyful simultaneously? I understood it as the challenge of the twenty-first century. Maybe it was simply what being a grown up meant.

When you look into your baby’s eyes,” my friend Sarah once said to me, “that will become your Tibet.” I have no doubt that looking into one’s own baby’s eyes is many inexpressibly wonderful things, but one thing it is not is Tibet.

We call such a limited number of relationships love in our lives, but there is always love around us – it’s as ubiquitous as oxygen.

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.