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  • Writer
  • born 1937
  • 150 quotes

Lois Lowry, a writer (born 1937), is quoted 150 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Giver, Thinking, Book and Memories.

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Fear dims when you learn things.

Evil can do anything, for a price.

I see all of them. All the colors.

Memory is the happiness of being alone.

And it was lonely, to yearn, all alone.

Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.

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

The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.

Think only on the climb. Think on what you control

Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing

I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.

Every 'no' means you are that much closer to a 'yes.

It's hard to give up the being together with someone.

Reading is the most important way to prepare for life.

That's why they call you Seer. You see more than most.

It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.

It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.

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

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

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

We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

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

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none

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

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

Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it.

But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.

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

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

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

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

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

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

People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.

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

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

Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.

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

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

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium.

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

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

It be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating, what you're leaving.

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