34 Lois Lowry Quotes for You to Enjoy

Lois Lowry

American Writer

Born: Mar 20, 1937

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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

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In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I encountered the newly-published 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Of course, that book became the iconic anti-establishment novel for my generation. Lois Lowry

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I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where it's going. So I have only the most general sense of what I'm doing when I start a story. I sometimes have a destination in mind, but how the story is going to go from Point A to Point Z is something I make up as I go along. Lois Lowry

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

People Sit Down Nowadays Though Trilogy Seems Write Know Going

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. Lois Lowry

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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. Lois Lowry

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

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I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen. Lois Lowry

Think Teens Books Drawn Could Happen Might Portray Speculative

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. Lois Lowry

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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

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