Lois Lowry famous quotes

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

#Lying #Love Is #World

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.
-- Lois Lowry

#Children #Book #Elsewhere

She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.
-- Lois Lowry

#Dream #Stars #Sleep

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

#Pain #Pride #Stronger

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

#Brave #Be Brave #Easier

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

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

#Grief #Tears #Body

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
-- Lois Lowry

#Pain #Memories #Loneliness

There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.
-- Lois Lowry

#Doors #Literature #World

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.
-- Lois Lowry

#Distance #Life Changing #Space

Memory is the happiness of being alone.
-- Lois Lowry

#Memories #Time To Move On

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

#People #Adults #Firsts

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.
-- Lois Lowry

#Two #Laughing #Together

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.
-- Lois Lowry

#Home #Littles #Next

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

When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.
-- Lois Lowry

#Divorce #Racism #Attention

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

#People #Reason #Turns

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.
-- Lois Lowry

#Husband #Wind #Clothes

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

#Important

Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.
-- Lois Lowry

#Genius #Boundaries #Shouting

Gabe?" The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love", Jonas whispered.
-- Lois Lowry

#Sleep

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.
-- Lois Lowry

#Pain #Past #Unexpected

Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.
-- Lois Lowry

#Taken #Reality #Choices

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.
-- Lois Lowry

#Love #Book #Writing

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

- My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it... - They know nothing.
-- Lois Lowry

#Technology #Brain #Taught

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

#What If #Mates

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.
-- Lois Lowry

#Dream #Distance #Snow

Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that pivotal age, 12, 13 or 14, they're still deeply affected by what they read, some are changed by what they read, books can change the way they feel about the world in general. I don't think that's true of adults as much.
-- Lois Lowry

#Book #Kids #Thinking

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

#Writing #Self #Employment

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

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

#Bunnies #Rhyme

The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.
-- Lois Lowry

#Son #Facts #My Son

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

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

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

And it was lonely, to yearn, all alone.
-- Lois Lowry

#Lonely #All Alone

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.
-- Lois Lowry

#Life Changing #Wish #Want

The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books.
-- Lois Lowry

#Art #Pain #Book

And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.
-- Lois Lowry

#Memories #Shapes #Rooms

I make up the characters in my books, but of course my consciousness is filled with every child I've ever known, including my two grandchildren, my own kids (I had four) and especially myself as a child, because that person still lives inside me, too.
-- Lois Lowry

#Children #Book #Character

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.
-- Lois Lowry

#Lying #Father #Knowing

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

#Rain #World #Mama