Lois Lowry quotes - page 3

The fact that I lost my son permeates my being. (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.

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Oddly, the military world is one of great sameness. There is an orderly quality to life on an army base, and even the children of the military are brought up with that sense of order and sameness.

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If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!

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Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo.

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He knew that there was no quick comfort for emotions like those. They were deeper and they did not need to be told. They were felt.

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But there was nothing left to do but continue.

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Memories are forever.

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The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing.

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... what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine? (Lois Lowry)

When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong, every single time.

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... how could you describe a hill and snow to someone who had never felt height or wind or that feathery, magical cold?

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We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.

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.. you have more than you know. And people will want what you have.

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For all for children To whom we entrust the future.

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I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren't many things that I feel I have left undone.

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I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

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I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that what intrigued me was not the science, not the chemistry or biology of medicine, but the narrative - the story of each patient, each illness.

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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.

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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 tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read 'The Giver' now have their own kids who are reading it. Even from the beginning, the book attracted an audience beyond a child audience.

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I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.

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I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews, and so I'm aware of what's out there. But I tend not to read the books.

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

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Lois Lowry

Occupation: American Writer
Quotes count: 90
Wikipedia: Lois Lowry

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