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" Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is a prescription for disaster for the young. "

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" 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. "

Lois Lowry

Feel

Life

Done

" I think when you've had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you've already proven yourself. They're excited about what you're doing, you have people interested in it, and actually waiting for it. It's empowering. "

" Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world. "

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

" 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. "

" I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to suppress it, to keep it from kids. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that what intrigued me was not the science, not the chemistry or biology of medicine, but the narrative - the story of each patient, each illness. "

Lois Lowry

Doctor

Science

" I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids usually read my book. And I remember myself; we'd gone through a world war. My father was an army officer so I was aware of what was going on. But I wasn't bombarded with images of catastrophe like many kids are today. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" This may sound strange, but at a very early age, at around 3, I was aware that I was smarter than the other kids. "

" 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. "

" I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult. "

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

" Most people remember being 4 objectively, as if they're seeing a movie of a 4-year-old. But me, if you ask me to think about when I'm 4, I can feel myself being 4, and I am there, looking out through my 4-year-old eyes. "

Lois Lowry

Eyes

People

" The fact that I lost my son permeates my being. "

" My mind is always on whatever next project I'm working on. "

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

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

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

Lois Lowry

Seeing

Writing

" I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person. "