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Lori Lansens Biography

Lori Lansens is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter. She was a successful screenwriter, whose credits included the films South of Wawa, Wolf Girl and Marine Life, before publishing her first novel Rush Home Road in 2002.

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the only thing left to do is love

Left, Love, Thing

Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.

Lottery, Unlikely, Unusual, Winning

We're seeing a decline in religion in North America but, I hope, a rise in individual spirituality. Whatever that means to people.

America, Hope, Mean, People, Rise, Seeing

The drugstore is a wonderful place to see all manner of ailments.

Ailments, Manner, Place, Wonderful, Wonderful Places

Because I live in California now, I find my musings really being centered in this world.

California, Centered, Musings, This World, World

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!

Aunt, One Day, Say, Shout, Voice

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 southerly setting. But that's certainly not to say I won't be back to Leaford.

American, Book, California, Current, Setting, Southern

What is it about sadness that can be so fulfilling?

Fulfilling, Sadness

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.

Strange, Strange Things, Strangest, Think, Thinking

I have never looked into my sister's eyes. I have never bathed alone. I have never stood in the grass at night and raised my arms to the beguiling moon. I’ve never used an airplane bathroom. Or worn a hat. Or been kissed like that. I’ve never driven a car. Or slept through the night. Never a private talk. Or a solo walk. I’ve never climbed a tree. Or faded into a crowd. So many things I’ve never done, but oh, how I’ve been loved. And, if such things were to be, I’d live a thousand lives as me, to be loved so exponentially.

Airplane, Eye, Grass, Live, Looked, Moon

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.

Giving, Mean, Strength, Talk, Thinking

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.

American, Opposed, Sports, Team, Weather

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.

Coffee, Liars, Ponder, Prose, Writing, Written

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.

Circles, Compassion, Empathy, Judgment, People, Revulsion

Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

Read, Tell, Telling The Truth, Way, Writing

I was in the emergency room twice with heart palpitations and panic attacks. As one of my actor friends pointed out: your body doesn't know that you're making art. You think about struggle and challenge and you imagine yourself weighing 302 pounds and being restricted and in despair. Your body doesn't know that that's not the case.

Art, Heart, Palpitations, Struggle, Thinking, Twice

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

Cities, Country, Matter, People, Unrepentant, Wholesome

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.

Girl, Hum, Place, Secret, Secret Places, Thinking

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