American - Writer | March 20, 1937 -
I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and 'Brave New World.'
Lois Lowry
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My mind is always on whatever next project I'm working on.
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I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen.
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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.
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There are those, I think, who are attracted to the glitz of celebrity life. I am not one of them.
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I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.
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Most people remember being 4 objectively, as if they're seeing a movie of a 4-year-old. But me, if you ask me to think about when I'm 4, I can feel myself being 4, and I am there, looking out through my 4-year-old eyes.
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This may sound strange, but at a very early age, at around 3, I was aware that I was smarter than the other kids.
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Because I have two houses, I invariably get immersed in a book and then discover it's at the other house.
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When I moved from Cambridge, I donated all my fiction. I carefully cut out pages the authors had autographed for me. I didn't want those autographed books showing up on eBay.
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People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.
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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.
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