Lois Lowry Quotes - Page 4

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

  Lois Lowry

  Writing, Self, Employment

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• ...now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow - moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going

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  Moving, Light, Color

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.

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  Waiting, Weapons, Shelter

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.170, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

  Lois Lowry

  Kids, Want, Way

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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 different world, one that doesn't include me anymore.

  Lois Lowry

  Moving, Different, World

  Lois Lowry (1977). “A Summer to Die”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't know what you mean when you say 'the whole world' or 'generations before him.'I thought there was only us. I thought there was only now.

  Lois Lowry

  Mean, World, Generations

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

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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.

  Lois Lowry

  Book, Writing, Kids

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• 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 so I'm aware of what's out there. But I tend not to read the books.

  Lois Lowry

  Children, Book, Reading

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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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• 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. Even from the beginning, the book attracted an audience beyond a child audience.

  Lois Lowry

  Children, Book, Reading

  "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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• His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?" But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.

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  Father, Lying, Knowing

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself

  Lois Lowry

  Gabriel, Giver

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Always in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something--he could not grasp what-that lay beyond the place where the thickness of snow brought the sled to a stop. He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The feeling that it was good. That it was welcoming. That it was significant. But he did not know how to get there.

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  Dream, Distance, Snow

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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 want to suppress it, to keep it from kids.

  Lois Lowry

  Believe, Book, Kids

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• For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.

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  Punishment, Community, Decision

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I left home at the correct time but when I was riding along near the hatchery, the crew was separating some salmon, I guess I just got distraught, watching them.

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  Home, Salmon, Riding

  Lois Lowry (2011). “The Giver (illustrated; gift edition)”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.

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  Disappear, Shoulders, Giver

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

  Lois Lowry

  Book, Thinking, Action

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• The mind can’t explain it, and you can’t make it go away. It’s called love.

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  Mind, Going Away, Giver

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• So actually, there could be parents-of-the-parents-of-the-parents-of-the parents?

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  Parent

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.

  Lois Lowry

  Book, Blue, Events

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• Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.

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  Care, Giver, Needed

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.144, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.

  Lois Lowry

  Preparation, Training, Important

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.

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  December, Frightened

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship

  Lois Lowry

  Long, Moments, Long Friendship

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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