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Lois Lowry Quotes

I think I’ve written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I’m an introspective person.

– Lois Lowry

I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world.

– Lois Lowry

I’ve always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one else has the same memories. No one has the same dreams.

– Lois Lowry

When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don’t belong in a psych ward, I don’t think, but they become very real, like my own family, and then I have to say goodbye, close the door, and work on other things.

– Lois Lowry

When I was a kid in the ’50s, during the Eisenhower years, everything seemed to be working fine. I don’t recall as a teenager ever worrying about the state of the future world.

– Lois Lowry

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that’s why kids want precision in what they read – they don’t like that moral ambiguity.

– Lois Lowry

I think ‘The Giver’ is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn’t believe anyone would want to suppress it, to keep it from kids.

– Lois Lowry

The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.

– Lois Lowry

I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction… a couple, maybe three, fall into the ‘historic fiction’ category. Science fiction is not a favorite genre of mine, though I have greatly enjoyed some of the work of Ursula LeGuin. I haven’t read much science fiction so I don’t know other sci-fi authors.

– Lois Lowry

You rehear your life by reading about what happens to other people.

– Lois Lowry

I’m not terribly conversant with children’s literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

– Lois Lowry

I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.

– Lois Lowry

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

– Lois Lowry

I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.

– Lois Lowry

‘Gathering Blue’ was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to ‘The Giver.’

– Lois Lowry

One hopes that with a book or movie, the reader or the audience will emerge from it thinking. That’s the most you can hope for: that you’ve raised questions that will be there for the audience to think about later.

– Lois Lowry

The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied being a private person, actually requires you to be a public person as well, and those are two separate entities to me.

– Lois Lowry

There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that’s not what I do.

– Lois Lowry

Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.

– Lois Lowry

I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a young adolescent I did venture into the world of the Japanese with great interest and enjoyment. But many Americans never left that safe and familiar life among their own people.

– Lois Lowry

So many of my books, I don’t want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.

– Lois Lowry

People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.

– Lois Lowry

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