Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule. — Lois Lowry Employment 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
“hurry through the evening’s last light to the homeplace, where the blind” — Lois Lowry Evening Copy Share Image
The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past. — Lois Lowry Colour Copy Share Image
“Take your pride in your pain. You are stronger than those who have none.” — Lois Lowry Pain Copy Share Image
The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without… — Lois Lowry Art Copy Share Image
“You’ve ruined it now,” she said, looking sadly at the crumpled spotted wings in Bethan’s outstretched hand. “It deserved to live, and… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every… — Lois Lowry Books 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 Destruction Copy Share Image
“Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly… — Lois Lowry Children 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 Generations Copy Share Image
“He gestured toward her twisted leg. "Like you. Some don't walk good. Some be broken in other ways. Not all. But lots.… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another… — Lois Lowry Giving Copy Share Image
“Definitely not safe,” Jonas said with certainty. “What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong? “Or what… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the… — Lois Lowry Awakening 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 Choice Copy Share Image
Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good… — Lois Lowry Death 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 Censorship Copy Share Image
“Kira closed her eyes, thought, and said them aloud. "Madder for red. Bedstraw for red too, just the roots. Tops of tansy… — Lois Lowry Dye Copy Share Image
“But why can't everyone have the memories? I think it would seem a little easier if the memories were shared. You and… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
You remember that I told you it was safer not to know. But,' he went on, as his hands moved wuth their… — Lois Lowry Brave Copy Share Image
People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
You will fail. Then they will kill you." - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial. — 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 Action Copy Share Image
“It wasn't the same. I'm pretty good at making the best of things, but it wasn't the same.” — 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
If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it. — Lois Lowry Books Copy Share Image
People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Odd, she thought of him as her friend though in truth they had shared only one brief conversation.” — Lois Lowry Friend Copy Share Image
“I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.” — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.” — Lois Lowry Achievement 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
I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid. — 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
Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
