"Once she read a book but found it……" — Lois Lowry

"Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives."

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120 Quotes by Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry has 120 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I…
I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a…
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…
For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement…
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.…
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…
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.

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More Adjectives Quotes

This quote is filed under Adjectives Quotes, one of 137 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at… — Gregory Bateson
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names. — Mortimer Adler
I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this… — Alison Brie
To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up,… — Maya Angelou
We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under… — Arthur Conan Doyle
For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a… — Hal Borland
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. — Clifton Fadiman
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what… — Larry McMurtry
Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give… — Guy de Maupassant
You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it.… — Mark Twain
Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat… — Anton Chekhov

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