"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.
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When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I…
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I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a…
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It's hard to give up the being together with someone.
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I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would…
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For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement…
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What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.
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Reading is the most important way to prepare for life.
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Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event.…
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I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.
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I left home at the correct time but when I was riding along near the hatchery, the crew was separating…
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But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.
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I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.
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More Adjectives Quotes
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one of 137 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at…
— Gregory Bateson
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
— Mortimer Adler
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I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this…
— Alison Brie
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To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up,…
— Maya Angelou
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We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a…
— Hal Borland
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The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
— Clifton Fadiman
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You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what…
— Larry McMurtry
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Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give…
— Guy de Maupassant
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You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it.…
— Mark Twain
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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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