Lois Lowry quote: "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."

I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I...
LOIS LOWRY

I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and '...
LOIS LOWRY

Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky wa...
LOIS LOWRY

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to ...
LOIS LOWRY

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.
LOIS LOWRY

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

When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don...
LOIS LOWRY

People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.
LOIS LOWRY

In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I enc...
LOIS LOWRY

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none
LOIS LOWRY

...That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and b...
LOIS LOWRY

People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is d...
LOIS LOWRY

But there was nothing left to do but continue
LOIS LOWRY

Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where the...
LOIS LOWRY

When I moved from Cambridge, I donated all my fiction. I carefully cut out pages the authors had aut...
LOIS LOWRY

Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but th...
LOIS LOWRY

- My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of el...
LOIS LOWRY

His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, c...
LOIS LOWRY

And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how w...
LOIS LOWRY

It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.
LOIS LOWRY

He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY

There's much more. There's all that goes beyond – all ... that is Elsewhere – and all that goes ...
LOIS LOWRY

It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.
LOIS LOWRY

What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?
LOIS LOWRY

He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to f...
LOIS LOWRY

He knew that there was no quick comfort for emotions like those. They were deeper and they did not n...
LOIS LOWRY

I don't know what you mean when you say 'the whole world' or 'generations before him.'I thought ther...
LOIS LOWRY

You may lie.
LOIS LOWRY

Behind him,across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard ...
LOIS LOWRY

If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide...
LOIS LOWRY

...now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color...
LOIS LOWRY

Things could change, Gabe," Jonas went on. "Things could be different. I don't know how, but there m...
LOIS LOWRY

Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.
LOIS LOWRY

Gabe?"
The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him.
"There could...
LOIS LOWRY

I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in hast...
LOIS LOWRY

Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which...
LOIS LOWRY

They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he wa...
LOIS LOWRY

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pa...
LOIS LOWRY

I liked the feeling of love,' [Jonas] confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, re...
LOIS LOWRY

Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.
LOIS LOWRY

It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?
LOIS LOWRY

For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him...
LOIS LOWRY

If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are f...
LOIS LOWRY

We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.
LOIS LOWRY

The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied bei...
LOIS LOWRY

I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great li...
LOIS LOWRY

When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after a...
LOIS LOWRY

I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make ...
LOIS LOWRY

In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.
LOIS LOWRY

People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.
LOIS LOWRY

What comes to me always is a character, a scene, a moment. That's going to be the beginning. The...
LOIS LOWRY

The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, la...
LOIS LOWRY

It was the helplessness that scared the both of us.
LOIS LOWRY

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him fro...
LOIS LOWRY

...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and adm...
LOIS LOWRY

Four
LOIS LOWRY

Memory is the happiness of being alone.
LOIS LOWRY

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

I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.
LOIS LOWRY

Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing
LOIS LOWRY

Lily appeared, wearing her nightclothes, in the doorway. She gave an impatient sigh. 'This is certai...
LOIS LOWRY

Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids ...
LOIS LOWRY

Oddly, the military world is one of great sameness. There is an orderly quality to life on an army b...
LOIS LOWRY

People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel.
LOIS LOWRY

I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could hap...
LOIS LOWRY

It was my journey and i had to do it without help. I had to find my own strengths, face my own fears...
LOIS LOWRY

I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most vale...
LOIS LOWRY

I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn'...
LOIS LOWRY

I always set out to tell a good story, to create a character that young people can relate to, place ...
LOIS LOWRY

It's hard to give up the being together with someone.
LOIS LOWRY

I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There a...
LOIS LOWRY

I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall ...
LOIS LOWRY

She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have...
LOIS LOWRY

Its a little like looking at yourself looking in a mirror looking at yourself looking in a mirror.
LOIS LOWRY

We're all on our own, aren't we? That's what it boils down to.

We come into this world o...
LOIS LOWRY

I'm trying to ruin it!" Will had bellowed back. "So I can figure out how to do it perfectly! How can...
LOIS LOWRY

You will fail. Then they will kill you." - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial.
LOIS LOWRY

It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.
LOIS LOWRY

It's hard to leave the only place you've known.
LOIS LOWRY

There were no secrets in Village. It was one of the rules that Leader had proposed, and all of the p...
LOIS LOWRY

His thoughts seemed to be elsewhere, and his eyes were very troubled.
LOIS LOWRY

It was so - oh, I wish language were more precise! The red was so beautiful!
LOIS LOWRY

Jonas was careful about language.
LOIS LOWRY

The freedom to choose where to spend those hours had always seemed a wonderful luxury to Jonas; othe...
LOIS LOWRY

He sat in his dwelling alone, watching through the window, seeing children at play, citizens bicycli...
LOIS LOWRY

But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've c...
LOIS LOWRY

Call me The Giver,” he told Jonas.
LOIS LOWRY

No one mentioned such things; it was not a rule, but was considered rude to call attention to things...
LOIS LOWRY

They can't help it. They know nothing
LOIS LOWRY

But how did you know? How did you know the pilot was lost?” “I didn’t. I used my wisdom, from ...
LOIS LOWRY

He saw nothing except the endless ribbon of road unfolding in twisting narrow curves.
LOIS LOWRY

If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways.
LOIS LOWRY

Always in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something--he could not grasp what-...
LOIS LOWRY

He might make wrong choices.” “Oh.” Jonas was silent for a minute. “Oh, I see what you mean....
LOIS LOWRY

Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
MALCOLM LOWRY

War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under dif...
MALCOLM LOWRY

Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
MALCOLM LOWRY

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the t...
MALCOLM LOWRY

Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.
RICH LOWRY

they do not kiss
but they both want to
instead their feet touch and so do their arms
...
BRIGID LOWRY

Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though I have been si...
MALCOLM LOWRY

What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to...
MALCOLM LOWRY

When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the ...
RICH LOWRY

I'm hungry for a juicy life. I lean out my window at night and I can taste it out there, just waitin...
BRIGID LOWRY

The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the...
RICH LOWRY

Any time we're a subject matter of one of these rumors we don't talk. There's nothing to be gained.
BRUCE LOWRY

We certainly see China as a country of opportunity for the full range of Novell's offerings, whether...
BRUCE LOWRY

People aren't anxious to see a repeat of the 'Unix wars' of a few years ago.
BRUCE LOWRY

A good logo creates and maintains your identity.
BRUCE LOWRY

No hidden meanings. We were just looking for something that had a good, energetic beat.
BRUCE LOWRY

We ought to be doing that with decent standard housing but if we have people who are absolutely on t...
MIKE LOWRY

He?s one of the most driven people I know. But out of the four of us in the secondary, I would consi...
CALVIN LOWRY

He's starting to cut back on his mistakes and become a complete quarterback.
CALVIN LOWRY

BoP can't control how the justice department handles the case against the accused killer of Scott Wi...
BRYAN LOWRY

Playing games with the data won't make prisons safer. The Bureau of Prisons must get serious about p...
BRYAN LOWRY

It is unconscionable that the accused killer, who was captured by video cameras fatally attacking Sc...
BRYAN LOWRY

It was hurting but when you're out there playing you don't think about it. You just play and do ever...
BRYAN LOWRY

We're happy about it. We're still thinking about it, trying to look past it, but it's still in the b...
BRYAN LOWRY

Joe Mansour put his life at risk and made enormous financial sacrifices for his country. I hope that...
BRYAN LOWRY

Our heart and our fight changed. We were down that whole game. The defense decided we weren't going ...
CALVIN LOWRY

What happened was the Indiana game.
CALVIN LOWRY

They've made leaps and bounds from what they were in the spring ball.
CALVIN LOWRY

(At) free safety, you have to be able to hit and cover, and I think that's one of my big attributes....
CALVIN LOWRY

If we can get a good win against Minnesota, that will finally help people realize that Penn State is...
CALVIN LOWRY

He definitely changes the field (position) every time he goes out on the field.
CALVIN LOWRY

It was kind of a blow for us. When you lose one of your big playmakers like that, it's tough. Everyb...
CALVIN LOWRY

In the roles that I do play in, there are a lot of opportunities for a person to make plays. Every t...
CALVIN LOWRY

It's such a hard thing to undertake, to become a cat. But these kids are fantastic. They have such e...
CRAIG LOWRY

The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society.
MIKE LOWRY

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.
RICH LOWRY

Rose Bowl, the granddaddy of the mall.
CALVIN LOWRY

A life lived following one's dreams and passions is the purest form of existence. It is the only way...
VINCENT LOWRY

Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever befo...
RICH LOWRY

I?m really prepared for every worst case scenario. If I go second round I?m prepared to do that. If ...
KYLE LOWRY

Bush thus made a strong statement that the court has room for highly distinguished justices and not-...
RICH LOWRY

If you think the country is a bastion only of nasty tendencies and racism and oppression, that is an...
RICH LOWRY

Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Wash...
MIKE LOWRY

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third
MALCOLM LOWRY

If you feel like breaking, think of all the other dreams unfulfilled, the children unseen, the books...
MALCOLM LOWRY

War is being declared to-morrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under di...
MALCOLM LOWRY

It's devastating. I've never been that close to anything so horrific in my life.
CHARLENE LOWRY

We're not satisfied and we won't be until the very end where we're hosting that national championshi...
DAVID LOWRY

Was it a good idea or not? Was it a good idea or not? ...Be straight, Eleanor!
RICH LOWRY

We're still glad we did it. At least we can say we did all we could.
BRENT LOWRY

We're crossing our fingers for Ohio.
BRENT LOWRY

We feel pretty bad right now.
BRENT LOWRY

I think I'm prepared for every worst-case scenario. If I go second round, I'm prepared to do that . ...
KYLE LOWRY

But I was definitely excited. It was kind of a mixed emotion time for me, because I was in an exam a...
DAVID LOWRY

What's left is the people who raised their families here and lived here. And now they're here by the...
BILL LOWRY

They are not 100 percent happy with it, but it's better than what it was before.
BILL LOWRY

You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of mono...
RICH LOWRY

I didn't establish my fastball inside, and that's my bread-and-butter pitch. I made a mistake to Nom...
NOAH LOWRY

Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is ab...
RICH LOWRY

Writing:
It starts at the keyboard,
and it ends at the far corners of the universe. --Paak...
VINCENT LOWRY

It's such a shock. It really is. So close to home, a couple of blocks up the road -- way too close t...
CHARLENE LOWRY

It's just so sad, so sad.
CHARLENE LOWRY

Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to ...
MIKE LOWRY

It was awesome because we were doing Ramones songs.
MIKE LOWRY

I think it's really important for us to set a good tone for the end of the season, really come out a...
DAVID LOWRY

I was definitely looking forward to the draft,
DAVID LOWRY

It's kind of hard to tell why. Whether that's because I was an all-star last year or not, I'm not en...
DAVID LOWRY

You're going to be cut and bruised in places you didn't know you had.
CRAIG LOWRY

It's imperative to commit to always being your character 100 percent.
CRAIG LOWRY

Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks.
MIKE LOWRY

I've seen companies grow tremendously in a very short period of time.
JAMES LOWRY

She said she was so mad at me for not making her very rich, but later she thanked me for making her ...
JAMES LOWRY

Some people would rather be the 100 percent owner of a $100 million company than the partner of a $2...
JAMES LOWRY

That's really leaving us at a disadvantage. We have to change that.
JAMES LOWRY

The total number of minority-owned businesses has risen dramatically, and minorities' desire to be e...
JAMES LOWRY

We hear a lot of about the impending economic recession, but that does not imply an ad recession. In...
LOWRY MAYS

We are quite pleased with our results for the quarter and continue to believe that we have a powerfu...
LOWRY MAYS

This transaction gives us more overlap with our broadcasting operations, which ultimately enables us...
LOWRY MAYS

The novel can be read simply as a story which you can skip if you want. It can be read as a story yo...
MALCOLM LOWRY

It's tough, you know. But that's a great team. They're going to get back.
KYLE LOWRY

I got hit, but I just jumped and the ball happened to be right there.
KYLE LOWRY

Everybody just went to the glass, and I happened to be in the right spot.
KYLE LOWRY

Coach (Jay) Wright says there are always extra opportunities when other players aren't hitting their...
KYLE LOWRY

That?s where it all starts for us. Our attitude is that we?re going to outscore you, our attitude is...
KYLE LOWRY

We made shots, but we kept those guys from shooting over us or not getting too much into the lane. K...
KYLE LOWRY

It was fun and a great atmosphere to play home in front of a Philadelphia crowd, and also to be on t...
KYLE LOWRY

I just respect him so much. The things that he has done and accomplished are amazing. I can't imagin...
KYLE LOWRY

They made us play the way they wanted us to play.
KYLE LOWRY

We need to know exactly what we can expect to see from the agency.
MARSHA LOWRY

We don't know whether these relatives are going be found to be suitable, important question. So even...
MARSHA LOWRY

Obviously that's a devastating experience. Once she is in many different places she's going to be ps...
MARSHA LOWRY

Too many people in public believe that once we rescue children from bad situations and bad families,...
MARSHA LOWRY

The movements of some more little red birds in the garden, like animated rosebuds, appeared unbearab...
MALCOLM LOWRY

. . . blah blah blah and rhubarb.
BRIGID LOWRY

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.
LOIS WYSE

'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 196...
GEORGE LOIS

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do b...
LOIS WYSE

Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,...
LOIS HOROWITZ

If I knew what the photograph was going to look like, I wouldn't bother taking it. It's the ...
LOIS GREENFIELD

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overco...
GEORGE LOIS

Not having the information you need when you need it leaves you wanting. Not knowing where to look f...
LOIS HOROWITZ

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overc...
GEORGE LOIS

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs
LOIS WYSE

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overc...
GEORGE LOIS

My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to inc...
LOIS CAPPS

The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic m...
LOIS CAPPS

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