Lois Lowry Quotes

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• When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych…
• I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't…
• It's hard to give up the being together with someone.
• I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to suppress it, to…
• For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.
• What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.
• Reading is the most important way to prepare for life.
• Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did…
• I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.
• I left home at the correct time but when I was riding along near the hatchery, the crew was separating some salmon, I guess I…
• But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.
• I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.
• Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.
• Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.
• The mind can’t explain it, and you can’t make it go away. It’s called love.
• I see all of them. All the colors.
• So actually, there could be parents-of-the-parents-of-the-parents-of-the parents?
• But then everyone would be burdened and pained. They don't want that. And that's the real reason The Receiver is so vital to them, and…
• Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it elsewhere.…
• I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category. Science fiction is…

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