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
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 feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is defined. But if it… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no… — 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
You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
It's interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although 'The… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel. — 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
The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian… — 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
The mind can’t explain it, and you can’t make it go away. It’s called love. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
If everyting's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!" (Jonas) "It's… — 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
“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
