Lois Lowry Quotes - Page 3

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• If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.

  Lois Lowry

  Memories, Rivers, Forever

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych ward, I don't think, but they become very real, like my own family, and then I have to say goodbye, close the door, and work on other things.

  Lois Lowry

  Goodbye, Real, Character

  "Lois Lowry, ‘Son’ And ‘The Giver’ Author, Reflects On Dystopian Novels, Psychopaths And Why Kids Make The Best Audiences". Intervoew with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 05, 2012.

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• What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?

  Lois Lowry

  What If, Mates, Ifs

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.

  Lois Lowry

  Book, Important, Want

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• Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.

  Lois Lowry

  Holiday, Today

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition”, p.162, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver himself was not able to describe it, only to remind us that you would be faced with it, that you would need immense courage.

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  Pain, Able, Would Be

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.

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  People, Reason, Turns

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• I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren't many things that I feel I have left undone.

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  Done, Feels, Enjoyed

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• I think when you've had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you've already proven yourself. They're excited about what you're doing, you have people interested in it, and actually waiting for it. It's empowering.

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  Thinking, People, Empowering

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• Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.

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  Rain, World, Mama

  Lois Lowry, Douglas Wayne Larche, Susan Elliott Larche (1996). “Number the Stars”, p.28, Dramatic Publishing

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• I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.

  Lois Lowry

  Children, Team, Valentine

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• "I liked the feeling of love," [Jonas] confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, reassuring himself that no one was listening. "I wish we still had that," he whispered. "Of course," he added quickly, "I do understand that it wouldn't work very well. And that it's much better to be organized the way we are now. I can see that it was a dangerous way to live." [...] "Still," he said slowly, almost to himself, "I did like the light they made. And the warmth."

  Lois Lowry

  Wall, Light, Feelings

  "The Giver". Book by Lois Lowry, 1993.

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• For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.

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  Life Changing, Distance, Echoes

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

  Lois Lowry

  Children, Book, Adults

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• Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.

  Lois Lowry

  Writing, Self, Employment

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• Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises are coming next.

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  Home, Littles, Next

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• There's much more. There's all that goes beyond – all ... that is Elsewhere – and all that goes back, and back, and back. I received all of those, when I was selected. And here in this room, all alone, I re-experience them again and again. It is how wisdom comes. And how we shape our future.

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  Shapes, Rooms, All Alone

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Lois Lowry

  Book, Thinking, Gone

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• Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing

  Lois Lowry

  Fun, Kissing, Tease

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.348, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.

  Lois Lowry

  Bunnies, Rhyme

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

  Lois Lowry

  Book, Adjectives, Found

  Lois Lowry (2008). “The Willoughbys”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 my books, I can say, 'Oh, yes, it is there.' But it's not in my mind when I write.

  Lois Lowry

  Religious, Book, Writing

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• You will fail. Then they will kill you." - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial.

  Lois Lowry

  Trials, Kira, Failing

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• 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 cares about kids and who cares about truth and I am guided by my own instincts, and trust them.

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  Book, Writing, Kids

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• 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 book. And I remember myself, we'd gone through a world war. My father was an army officer so I was aware of what was going on. But I wasn't bombarded with images of catastrophe like many kids are today.

  Lois Lowry

  Father, War, Book

  "Lois Lowry, ‘Son’ And ‘The Giver’ Author, Reflects On Dystopian Novels, Psychopaths And Why Kids Make The Best Audiences". Interview with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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