-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and 'Brave New World.' — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying. — 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
Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was,… — 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
I don't know what you mean when you say 'the whole world' or 'generations before him.'I thought there was only us. I… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
When I was a kid in the '50s, during the Eisenhower years, everything seemed to be working fine. I don't recall as… — 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
When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong… — 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
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
The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after, — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world,… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard,… — 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
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
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
“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
