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Lois Lowry
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 20
Journalist
Novelist
Photographer
Writer
Honolulu
Hawaii
Lois Ann Hammersberg
Lois James Worthy Johnson
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Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.
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Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.
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Take pride in your pain you are stronger than those who have none
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So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.
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For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.
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There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.
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He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
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The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
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Reading is the most important way to prepare for life.
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I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.
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Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?
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I make up the characters in my books, but of course my consciousness is filled with every child I've ever known, including my two grandchildren, my own kids (I had four) and especially myself as a child, because that person still lives inside me, too.
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The mind can’t explain it, and you can’t make it go away. It’s called love.
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Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.
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There's much more. There's all that goes beyond – all ... that is Elsewhere – and all that goes back, and back, and back. I received all of those, when I was selected. And here in this room, all alone, I re-experience them again and again. It is how wisdom comes. And how we shape our future.
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I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category. Science fiction is not a favorite genre of mine, though I have greatly enjoyed some of the work of Ursula LeGuin. I haven't read much science fiction so I don't know other sci-fi authors.
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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.
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Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.
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It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.
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Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.
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