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I don't know what you mean when you say 'the whole world' or 'generations before him.'I thought there was only us. I thought there was only now.

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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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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.
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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.
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If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.
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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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It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.
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It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.
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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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Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.
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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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Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.
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-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.
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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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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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Evil can do anything, for a price.
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As a shy, introverted, scholarly child (long ago) I don't know what I would have done without libraries! My family moved often. I was always the new kid in town. The library always offered me my first and most important friendship: the place where I felt right at home. I still feel that way today, about libraries.
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I see all of them. All the colors.
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Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises are coming next.
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The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.
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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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Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.
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