Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy. — 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
For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning… — 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
People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons. — 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 knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Most people remember being 4 objectively, as if they're seeing a movie of a 4-year-old. But me, if you ask me to… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I always set out to tell a good story, to create a character that young people can relate to, place them in… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and… — 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
People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I think when you've had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you've already… — 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
