What is it about sadness that can be so fulfilling?

- Lori Lansens

Now that I live in Southern California, my current world certainly speaks to me, and I sense that my next book will have a more American and southerl…

- Lori Lansens

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 str…

- Lori Lansens

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 …

- Lori Lansens

I feel, holding books, accommodating their weight and breathing their dust, an abiding love. I trust them, in a way that I can't trust my computer, t…

- Lori Lansens

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.

- Lori Lansens

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 o…

- Lori Lansens

The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.

- Lori Lansens

the only thing left to do is love

- Lori Lansens