Lois Lowry Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“I've always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one else has the same memories. No one has the same dreams.”

“If somebody takes the time, a: to read a book that I have written, and then to b: care about it enough to write me and ask questions, surely I owe them a response.”

“It's interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although 'The Giver' does have an ambiguous ending. I've heard about that from readers over the years.”

“Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but that's because they haven't accepted the fact that a movie is a different thing, and it can't possibly be the same as the book.”

“One hopes that with a book or movie, the reader or the audience will emerge from it thinking. That's the most you can hope for: that you've raised questions that will be there for the audience to think about later.”

“I always set out to tell a good story, to create a character that young people can relate to, place them in a situation that will be interesting, intriguing, eventually suspenseful. But what I find is that after I do that, then there are themes that emerge, which teachers can then use to provoke discussion and debate.”

“I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a young adolescent I did venture into the world of the Japanese with great interest and enjoyment. But many Americans never left that safe and familiar life among their own people.”

“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.”

“There are those, I think, who are attracted to the glitz of celebrity life. I am not one of them.”

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