"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!"

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Source : Lori Lansens (2009). “The Girls”, p.6, Vintage Canada

Lori Lansens

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“People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.”

Source : "Cardinals, bishops and doctors must not deny us our last rights" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.
“It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.”
“I write because I have authority from life to do so.”
“White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.”
“We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.”
“There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe - without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.”

Source : "Terrorists Promise More Attacks Like 9/11" by Steven Stalinsky, New York Sun, September 6, 2009.
“Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page? How much easier is it to surrended to materialism or cynicism or to a hundred other ways of life that are, in fact, ways to hide from life and from our fears. When we write, we resist the facile seduction of theses simpler roads. We insist on finding out and declaring the truths that we find, and we dare to out those truths on the page.”
“Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble.”

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