Lori Lansens

“My father used to say there are two kinds of people: the noticers and the noticed”

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

“The beach was empty and dark but she couldn't hear her fear over the call of the surf.”

“You're so dehydrated I can hear you blink.”

“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.”

“Art isn't a product. It's an experience”

“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.”

“Regrets serve their purpose. You'll see.”

“When you get older, you think of sadness in a different way. You don't judge it so harshly.”