Books Quotes by Lois Lowry

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

— 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

I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen.

— Lois Lowry

Because I have two houses, I invariably get immersed in a book and then discover it's at the other house.

— Lois Lowry

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

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People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel.

— Lois Lowry

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

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I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and 'Brave New World.'

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I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read 'The Giver' now have their own kids who…

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Many of the books I loved as a kid, that even my mother read as a child, are very slow going. Today's…

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If somebody takes the time, a: to read a book that I have written, and then to b: care about it enough…

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When I moved from Cambridge, I donated all my fiction. I carefully cut out pages the authors had autographed for me. I…

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I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am…

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In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I encountered the newly-published 'The…

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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…

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One hopes that with a book or movie, the reader or the audience will emerge from it thinking. That's the most you…

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I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids…

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I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people…

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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…

— Lois Lowry

I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category.…

— Lois Lowry

The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every…

— Lois Lowry

Kids have no sense of appropriateness. They can ask me whatever they want. You do develop a sense of intimacy with readers,…

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Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that…

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“A stage adaptation of The Giver has been performed in cities and towns across the USA for years. More recently an opera…

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

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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…

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There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.

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“Walter cares more about what a book has to say than he does about whether he can turn it into a stuffed…

— Lois Lowry

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

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

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If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it.

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Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.

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“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

“The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every…

— Lois Lowry

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

Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice…

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I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to…

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The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied being a private person,…

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It's interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although 'The…

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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…

— Lois Lowry