345 Quotes by Lois Lowry

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

When you lose a child in an accident as I did, it's final - you're not caught in this longing for him, to search for him, knowing he's out there some place.

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

Because I have two houses, I invariably get immersed in a book and then discover it's at the other house.

Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is a prescription for disaster for the young.

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

You rehear your life by reading about what happens to other people.

This may sound strange, but at a very early age, at around 3, I was aware that I was smarter than the other kids.

It's interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although 'The Giver' does have an ambiguous ending. I've heard about that from readers over the years.