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Lois Lowry
American
Writer
Born:
Mar 20
,
1937
Book
Books
Me
People
Think
World
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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
Reality
Words
World
Dangerous
Censorship
Enter
Distorted
Has-Been
Bad
Seductive
Giver
Taken
Most
Also
Been
Where
Choice
Deeds
Away
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.
Lois Lowry
Dreams
Memories
Memory
Own
Else
Our
Both
No-One
Because
Always
Been
Same
Fascinated
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
Army
Generation
Book
First
Living
My Generation
Catcher
Catcher In The Rye
Headquarters
Course
Became
Island
Encountered
Governors
Which
Iconic
Then
Novel
I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.
Lois Lowry
Science
Fact
Never
Particularly
Reader
Science Fiction
Been
In Fact
Fiction
Literature
Interested
Dystopian
Fantasy
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
Myself
Destination
Writing
Sometimes
Mind
Sense
Something
General
Only
Point
General Sense
Along
Know
Most
Make
Make Up
How
Doing
Go
Surprise
Up
Going
Where
Not Interested
Story
Interested
Prefer
Start
When I was a kid in the '50s, during the Eisenhower years, everything seemed to be working fine. I don't recall as a teenager ever worrying about the state of the future world.
Lois Lowry
Future
World
State
Teenager
Everything
Worrying
Kid
Fine
About
Seemed
Years
Eisenhower
Working
Ever
Recall
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
Book
Past
Possibly
Fact
Disappointed
Because
Accepted
Were
Been
Same
Authors
Often
Different
Movie
In The Past
Different Thing
Deeply
Thing
Adaptation
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
Hope
You
Book
Will
Think
Thinking
Later
Hopes
Emerge
About
Most
Reader
Audience
Questions
Movie
Raised
People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel.
Lois Lowry
People
First
Young
Say
Giver
Adult
Know
Young Adult
Dystopian
Novel
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
Good
Character
People
Debate
Will
Situation
Young
Relate
Out
Tell
Intriguing
Find
Emerge
Good Story
Always
Provoke
Discussion
Suspenseful
After
Story
Place
Which
Interesting
Young People
Them
Themes
Then
Create
Use
Teachers
Eventually
Set
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
Racism
Words
World
Language
Poverty
Power
Society
Fluency
Bad
Futuristic
Sexism
Only
Giver
Mythical
Divorce
Attention
Contained
Also
Wrote
Precision
So-Called
After
Pollution
Paid
Utopian
Violence
Set
Careful
Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.
Lois Lowry
Change
World
Think
Change The World
Kids
Deserve
Right
What comes to me always is a character, a scene, a moment. That's going to be the beginning. Then, as I write, I begin to perceive an ending. I begin to see a destination, although sometimes that changes. And then, of course, there's the whole middle section looming.
Lois Lowry
Character
Me
Destination
Sometimes
Ending
Beginning
Changes
Section
See
Perceive
Scene
Write
Looming
Course
Although
Always
Begin
Going
Middle
Then
Moment
Whole
I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world.
Lois Lowry
Learning
People
World
Will
Single
Young
Doubt
Believe
Increasingly
Way
Shadow
Only
Make
Learn
Without
Survive
Frightening
Young People
Choices
Right
Necessary
You rehear your life by reading about what happens to other people.
Lois Lowry
Life
You
People
Reading
Other
About
Happens
Your
I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am a person who cares about kids and who cares about truth and I am guided by my own instincts, and trust them.
Lois Lowry
Truth
Trust
Book
Writing
Censorship
Own
Think
Cares
Guided
Kids
Possibility
About
My Own
Instincts
New
Know
New Book
Am
Person
Them
Who
Who Cares
Second
Oddly, the military world is one of great sameness. There is an orderly quality to life on an army base, and even the children of the military are brought up with that sense of order and sameness.
Lois Lowry
Life
Great
Army
Quality
World
Sense
Military
Brought
Oddly
Up
Sameness
Children
Order
Orderly
Even
Base
I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.
Lois Lowry
Writer
Retain
Like
Subtlety
Nuance
People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.
Lois Lowry
Lie
People
Memoirs
Tend
Certainly
Letters
The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.
Lois Lowry
Son
Lost
Fact
Being
People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is defined. But if it means that 10, 20, 50 years from now kids will still be reading it, that is kind of awe-inspiring.
Lois Lowry
People
Will
Reading
Defined
Kids
Kind
Classic
Giver
Know
How
Still
Refer
Years
Means
Now
Awe-Inspiring
Starting
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.
Lois Lowry
Today
Best
Garden
Mother
Slow
Example
Patient
Secret
Books
Kid
Adored
Read
Very
Child
Going
Children
Loved
Which
Many
Even
Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.
Lois Lowry
You
Writing
Own
Schedule
Self
Employment
Make
Your
My mind is always on whatever next project I'm working on.
Lois Lowry
Mind
Whatever
Project
Always
Next
Working
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