345 Quotes by Lois Lowry

Kids have no sense of appropriateness. They can ask me whatever they want. You do develop a sense of intimacy with readers, and they tell you things about themselves. During a school year, I'll get e-mails asking about the books. I'll give them information, but I won't do their homework for them.

Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but that's because they haven't accepted the fact that a movie is a different thing, and it can't possibly be the same as the book.

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

Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.

I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.

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?

When I was a kid in the '50s, during the Eisenhower years, everything seemed to be working fine. I don't recall as a teenager ever worrying about the state of the future world.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none