The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There are no religious overtones.… — 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 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 prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where it's going. So I… — 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
Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to… — 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
