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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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Lois Lowry
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 20
Journalist
Novelist
Photographer
Writer
Honolulu
Hawaii
Lois Ann Hammersberg
Lois James Worthy Johnson
Bunnies
Rhyme
Talk
Place
Always

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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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-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.
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Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it elsewhere. So the only wisdom is the advice to keep at it, I guess.
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I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people tick. Writing a story... 'The Giver' or any other... is simply an exploration of the nature of behavior: why people do what they do, how it affects others, how we change and grow, and what decisions we make along the way.
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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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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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What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.
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I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.
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