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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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It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.
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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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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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Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.
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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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Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.
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They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that he could not change that for them.
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I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.
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There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship
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Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories.
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His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: Do you lie? But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.
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I see all of them. All the colors.
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Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that pivotal age, 12, 13 or 14, they're still deeply affected by what they read, some are changed by what they read, books can change the way they feel about the world in general. I don't think that's true of adults as much.
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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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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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It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.
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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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I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine thing to look into a giggle.
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I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.
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What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.
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