Lois Lowry Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied being a private person, actually requires you to be a public person as well, and those are two separate entities to me.”

“Many of the books I loved as a kid, that even my mother read as a child, are very slow going. Today's children are not as patient. The best example of this is 'The Secret Garden,' which I adored as a child.”

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

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

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

“I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and 'Brave New World.'”

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

“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.”

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