Pam Houstonauthor profile |
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| gender | female | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| website | http://www.pamhouston.net/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| genre | Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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about this author
Houston is the Director of Creative Writing at U.C. Davis. Her stories have been selected for the Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Awards, the Pushcart Prize, and the Best American Short Stories of the Century. She lives in Colorado at 9,000 feet above sea level near the headwaters of the Rio Grande. |
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books by Pam Houstoncombine editionsavg rating: 3.92 | 1407 ratings | 9 distinct works
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quotes by Pam Houston
"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. "
— Pam Houston
— Pam Houston
"'Do you write novels?' I said.
'Novels, Lord no,' she said. 'I can't even stay married.'"
— Pam Houston (Waltzing the Cat)
'Novels, Lord no,' she said. 'I can't even stay married.'"
— Pam Houston (Waltzing the Cat)
"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."
— Pam Houston (Waltzing the Cat)
— Pam Houston (Waltzing the Cat)