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Book Quotes by Lois Lowry
- 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…
- 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 turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.
- 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…
- I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.
- I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.
- So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.
- Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that pivotal age, 12,…
- I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am a person who…
- I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews, and…
- I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There are no religious overtones. Looking back at…
- I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids usually read my…
- I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read 'The Giver' now have their own kids who are reading it.…
- I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people tick. Writing a…
- You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It's the same…
- The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place…
- Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.
- It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.
- The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or…
- 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…
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