Quotes by Lois Lowry

I brug you two [gifts] . . . I gots the little here in my pockie. He dug one hand deep into his pocket and pulled out a handful of nuts and a dead grasshopper. Nope. Be the other side. (Matt)

You remember that I told you it was safer not to know. But, he went on, as his hands moved wuth their sure and practiced motion, I will tell you just a little, because you were so very brave.Brave? Annemarie asked, surprised. No, I wasnt. I was very frightened.You risked your life.But I didnt even think about that! I was only thinking of-He interrupted her,smiling. Thats all that brave means-not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do. Of course you were frightened. I was too, today. But you kept your mind on what you had to do. So did I.

it is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything

A stage adaptation of The Giver has been performed in cities and towns across the USA for years. More recently an opera has been composed and performed. And soon there will be a film. Does The Giver have the same effect when it is presented in a different way: Its hard to know. A book, to me is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and beliefs and concerns, and reads in solitude, creating each scene from his own imagination as he does. There is no fellow ticket-holder in the next seat. The important thing is that another medium--stage, film, music--doesnt obliterate a book. The movie is here now, on a big screen, with stars and costumes and a score. But the book hasnt gone away. It has simply grown up, grown larger, and begun to glisten in a new way.

Ive always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one else has the same memories. No one has the same dreams.

When I wrote The Giver, it contained no so-called bad words. It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of The Giver; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.

“Memory is the happiness of being alone.”