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
“He had waited a long time for this special December. Now that it was almost upon him, he wasn’t frightened, but he… — Lois Lowry December Copy Share Image
“Jonas wasn’t interested, just then, in wisdom. It was the colors that fascinated him. “Why can’t everyone see them? Why did colors… — Lois Lowry Time Copy Share Image
“She was willing to give you everything she had. And you took it from her. You took her youth, and her beauty,… — Lois Lowry Beauty Copy Share Image
“And you know what, Thin Elderly? Sad parts are important. If I ever get to train a new young dreamgiver, that's one… — Lois Lowry Dream Copy Share Image
“That day had changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had loved, each… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“I didn't understand the war. It was new, and they all said it would be there for a long time, but where… — Lois Lowry Dark sky Copy Share Image
“Jonas, listening, thought suddenly about the bridge and how, standing there, he had wondered what lay Elsewhere. Was there someone there, waiting,… — Lois Lowry Communication Copy Share Image
“Some books had shiny pages that showed paintings of landscapes unlike anything Matty had ever seen, or of people costumed in odd… — Lois Lowry Battles Copy Share Image
“A lot of people I know would hate that ending, but not me. I loved it. Mainly because I got to make… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“All of it was new to him. After a life of Sameness and predictability, he was awed by the surprises that lay… — Lois Lowry Happiness Copy Share Image
I make up the characters in my books, but of course my consciousness is filled with every child I've ever known, including… — Lois Lowry Book Copy Share Image
You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“He might make wrong choices.” “Oh.” Jonas was silent for a minute. “Oh, I see what you mean. It wouldn’t matter for… — Lois Lowry Choice Copy Share Image
I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category.… — Lois Lowry Book Copy Share Image
“It was an illusion. It was a tangled knot of fears and deceits and dark struggles for power that had disguised itself… — Lois Lowry Fear 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 Acceptance 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,… — Lois Lowry Dream Copy Share Image
“I came across an account of a young man named Kim Malthe-Bruun, who was eventually captured and executed by the Nazis when… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“We’re almost there, Gabriel,” he whispered, feeling quite certain without knowing why. “I remember this place, Gabe.” And it was true. But… — Lois Lowry Final destination Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often - there are so many things I could tell them; things I… — Lois Lowry Change Copy Share Image
“But how did you know? How did you know the pilot was lost?” “I didn’t. I used my wisdom, from the memories.… — Lois Lowry Fear Copy Share Image
“There were only two occasions of release which were not punishment. Release of the elderly, which was a time of celebration for… — Lois Lowry Crime Copy Share Image
“A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and… — Lois Lowry Book Copy Share Image
Kids have no sense of appropriateness. They can ask me whatever they want. You do develop a sense of intimacy with readers,… — 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 Adults Copy Share Image
I think when you've had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you've already… — Lois Lowry Books Copy Share Image
“Selected for what?” Claire had never heard of such a thing before. Rolf raised an eyebrow and shrugged. “I don’t know.” “Didn’t… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
There's much more. There's all that goes beyond – all ... that is Elsewhere – and all that goes back, and back,… — Lois Lowry All alone Copy Share Image
Always in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something--he could not grasp what-that lay beyond the place… — Lois Lowry Awakening 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 Adolescent Copy Share Image
