Lois Lowry Quotes - Page 5

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• People in the know say The Giver was the first young adult dystopian novel.

  Lois Lowry

  People, Adults, Firsts

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• 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 story... 'The Giver' or any other... is simply an exploration of the nature of behavior: why people do what they do, how it affects others, how we change and grow, and what decisions we make along the way.

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  Love, Book, Writing

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• 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 with books.

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  Book, Tuna Fish, Giving

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

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  Trials, Kira, Failing

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

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  Book, Adjectives, Found

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

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• She was the only doctor's wife in Branford, Maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline instead of putting it through a dryer, because she liked to look out the window and see the clothes blowing in the wind. She had been especially delighted, one day, when one sleeve of the top of her husband's pajamas, prodded by the stiff breeze off the bay, reached over and grabbed her nightgown around the waist.

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  Husband, Doctors, Wind

  Lois Lowry (1978). “Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

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  Funny Things, Names

  Lois Lowry (1983). “Summer to Die”, Bantam

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• It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?

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  Important, Giver

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace.

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  Air, Silence, Feelings

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

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  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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• Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body and looked down. With its sinuous trunk it struck the huge corpse; then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of torn thick flesh. Finally it tilted its massive head, raised its trunk, and roared into the empty landscape.

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  Elephants, Tree, Body

  Lois Lowry (1993). “The Giver”, Laurel Leaf

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• 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 not a favorite genre of mine, though I have greatly enjoyed some of the work of Ursula LeGuin. I haven't read much science fiction so I don't know other sci-fi authors.

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  Couple, Book, Fall

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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.

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  Book, Thinking, Gone

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• Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often - there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable - so painless. It's what they've chosen.

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  Life Changing, Wish, Want

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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