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Pam Houston Biography

Pam Houston (born January 9, 1962 in Trenton, New Jersey) is an American author of short stories, novels and essays. She is best known for her first book, Cowboys Are My Weakness (1992), which has been translated into nine languages, and which won the 1993 Western States Book Award. Also, "Cowboys Are My Weakness" was named a New York Times Notable Book in 1992.

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Sometimes no matter how well you prepare, no matter how conservative your decision making, no matter how few Y chromosomes are along on your trip, you can still find yourself in a mud slide or a hurricane without a dry piece of clothing to your name. But those of us who have given our time and usually our hearts to outdoorsmen over the years know that, for many of them, it's not really a wilderness trip unless, MacGyver-like, they have to make a fire out of a pair of shorts, a glow stick, and a ketchup bottle; it's not really an adventure until someone gets airlifted out.

Adventure, Decision, Heart, Hurricane, Names, Slide

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.

Dog, Skin, Sleep, Stayed, Thinking, Wrong

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 are the best opportunity we get to live fully, to be our strongest, our most compassionate, our most graceful selves.

Life, Living, Loss, Opportunity, Part, Self

There are three principles to remember if you are to teach a human being anything, and they are consistency, consistency, consistency. They are such fragile creatures to begin with, with poor eyes, poorer hearing, and no sense of smell left to speak of, it's no wonder they are made of fear. Some centuries ago they moved inside and with that move went nine-tenths of their intuition. It is almost unmerciful to make them live so long when they spend their lives in so much pain.

Eye, Moving, Pain, Spend, Teach

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.

Energy, Motivation, Write, Writing

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.

Magazines, Mean, Night, Rest, University, Writing

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

Important, Stories, Accuracy, Story, Shaping

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.

Class, Done, Teach, Traveling, Two

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

Drives, Priorities, Priority, Teaching, Writing

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.

Dog, Life Changing, Half, Tethered, Sanity

Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.

Life, Giving, Receiving, Whole

I write really well on the road.

Road, Wells, Write, Writing

The more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn't be around much anymore, I was a little bit afraid the new Lucy hadn't yet shown up.

Anymore, Course, Fear, Important, Littles, Question

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.

Bahamas, Friend, Island, Islands, Twenties, Years

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

Beautiful, Beautiful Things, Looking, Things, Weird

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.

Beautiful, Note, Running, Stop, Story, Writing

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.

Book, Day, Home, Hours, Sort, Writing

I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings.

Feelings, Feels, Learning, Said, Thing, Toughest

Praise Roxane Gay for her big-hearted self-examining intelligence, for her inclusive and forgiving stance, for her courage and determination. . . for saying out loud the things we were thinking, for guiding us back to ourselves and returning to us what was ours all along.

Determination, Gay, Saying, Things, Thinking

One thing I'm always thinking about myself is what am I willing to make up? And the answer is not much.

Thinking, Answers, Willing, Thing, Make

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