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
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
This may sound strange, but at a very early age, at around 3, I was aware that I was smarter than the… — 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
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
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
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 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
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
We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they… — 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
