“children all received their bicycles at Nine; they were not allowed to ride bicycles before then.” — 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
“Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly… — 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
When you lose a child in an accident as I did, it's final - you're not caught in this longing for him,… — 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
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
“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
As a shy, introverted, scholarly child (long ago) I don't know what I would have done without libraries! My family moved often.… — 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 was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box. — 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
Many of the books I loved as a kid, that even my mother read as a child, are very slow going. Today's… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Kids have no sense of appropriateness. They can ask me whatever they want. You do develop a sense of intimacy with readers,… — 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
“Some books had shiny pages that showed paintings of landscapes unlike anything Matty had ever seen, or of people costumed in odd… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Oddly, the military world is one of great sameness. There is an orderly quality to life on an army base, and even… — 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 Image
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 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 stars and… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Take your pride in your pain. You are stronger than those who have none.” — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“...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 Image
