Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry
Lois Lowryis an American writer credited with more than thirty children's books. She has won two Newbery Medals, for Number the Stars in 1990 and The Giver in 1994. For her contribution as a children's writer, she was a finalist in 2000for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books. Her book Gooney Bird Greene won the 2002 Rhode Island Children's Book Award. In 2007 she received the Margaret Edwards Award from...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth20 March 1937
CityHonolulu, HI
CountryUnited States of America
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.
For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.
He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.
Memory is the happiness of being alone.
Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.
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?
Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.
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
There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.
And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.
It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.
She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.