Lori Lansens Quotes
The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.
Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.
I hum some secret place into being, thinking of this other me, the one that only I can see, a girl called She, who is not We, a girl who I will never be.
I'm not alone in having obese people in my circle and in my family. I have loved morbidly obese people, and I don't approach obesity with revulsion or judgment but with empathy and compassion.
The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.
If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead.
The world's waistlines are expanding, but it's an epidemic of a larger issue in terms of our bounty having become our burden.
Evidence tells that black and Latina woman are more accepting of curves, and that's a good thing.
When we talk about God, I think what most of us mean is some greater thing, some higher power that can help us access our own strength or give us strength.
When I grew up, all of our news, weather, and sports came from America. The people where I grew up rooted for American teams as opposed to Canadian teams.
I have had, like most women, a lifelong preoccupation with my weight. My first published short story was a love story between an elderly man and a very young morbidity obese woman.
Because I live in California now, I find my musings really being centered in this world.
If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.
Aunt Lovey used to tell me that if I wanted to be a writer, I needed a writer's voice. 'Read,' she'd say, 'and if you have a writer's voice, one day it will shout out, 'I can do that too!
We're seeing a decline in religion in North America but, I hope, a rise in individual spirituality. Whatever that means to people.
When you stand outside, you look around and find that the people you're with live on the fringes.
Write, ' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.
My father used to say there are two kinds of people: the noticers and the noticed
The beach was empty and dark but she couldn't hear her fear over the call of the surf.
The most successful people in the most impossible situations are the ones that are sure they're gonna get out of it, and they go on thinking that, even if they die trying.
When you get older, you think of sadness in a different way. You don't judge it so harshly.
Her changing perception of time had altered the sum of her reflections.
