I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy. Lois Lowry Read Quote
We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that’s why kids want precision in what they read – they don’t like that moral ambiguity. Lois Lowry Read Quote
I always set out to tell a good story, to create a character that young people can relate to, place them in a situation that will be interesting, intriguing, eventually suspenseful. But what I find is that after I do that, then there are themes that emerge, which teachers can then use to provoke discussion and debate. Lois Lowry Read Quote
The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied being a private person, actually requires you to be a public person as well, and those are two separate entities to me. Lois Lowry Read Quote
I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers. Lois Lowry Read Quote
In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I encountered the newly-published ‘The Catcher in the Rye.’ Of course, that book became the iconic anti-establishment novel for my generation. Lois Lowry Read Quote