The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Because I have two houses, I invariably get immersed in a book and then discover it's at the other house. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Walter cares more about what a book has to say than he does about whether he can turn it into a stuffed… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“The important thing is that another medium—stage, film, music—doesn’t obliterate a book. The movie is here now, on a big screen, with… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
One hopes that with a book or movie, the reader or the audience will emerge from it thinking. That's the most you… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but that's because they haven't accepted the… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There are no religious overtones.… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
If somebody takes the time, a: to read a book that I have written, and then to b: care about it enough… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category.… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I encountered the newly-published 'The… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read 'The Giver' now have their own kids who… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment.… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I make up the characters in my books, but of course my consciousness is filled with every child I've ever known, including… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“She's sure, absolutely sure, that what she's waiting for will happen, just the way she wants it to; and I'm so uncertain, so fearful… — Lois Lowry Copy Share
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… — Lois Lowry Copy Share
“The important thing is that another medium—stage, film, music—doesn’t obliterate a book. The movie is here now, on a big screen, with stars and… — Lois Lowry Copy Share
Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is… — Lois Lowry Copy Share
They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that… — Lois Lowry Copy Share
Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy. — Lois Lowry Copy Share
“Sometimes we have to hurt people, in order to keep ourselves whole. We must just do it with love, that's all.” — Lois Lowry Copy Share
“Once, back in the time of the memories, everything had a shape and size, the way things still do, but they also had a… — Lois Lowry Copy Share
“No one mentioned such things; it was not a rule, but was considered rude to call attention to things that were unsettling or different… — Lois Lowry Copy Share
When you lose a child in an accident as I did, it's final - you're not caught in this longing for him, to search… — Lois Lowry Copy Share
“...and I want you all to remember- that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the dream for… — Lois Lowry Copy Share
“He saw Forest and understood what Seer had meant. It was an illusion. It was a tangled knot of fears and deceits and dark… — Lois Lowry Copy Share
“Don't grow much more, or you will be taller than I am, little Longlegs!" Annemarie smiled, but Peter's comment was no longer the lighthearted… — Lois Lowry Copy Share
