All Lois Lowry Quotes
- Fear dims when you learn things. Dims
- Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished… Choice
- I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid. Anyone
- The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after, Changed
- And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and… Beginning
- I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy. Been
- You rehear your life by reading about what happens to other people. Happens
- People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons. Badly
- Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy. Down
- I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen. Books
- There are those, I think, who are attracted to the glitz of celebrity life. I am not one of them. Attracted
- This may sound strange, but at a very early age, at around 3, I was aware that I was smarter than the other kids. Age
- People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs. Letters
- I always set out to tell a good story, to create a character that young people can relate to, place them in a situation that… Always Set
- If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it. Grab
- The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied being a private person, actually requires you… Actually Requires
- If somebody takes the time, a: to read a book that I have written, and then to b: care about it enough to write me… Ask
- Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is a… Books
- Oddly, the military world is one of great sameness. There is an orderly quality to life on an army base, and even the children of… Army
- I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a young adolescent I… Adolescent