Lois Lowry Quotes

I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where it's going. So I have only the most general sense of what I'm doing when I start a story. I sometimes have a destination in mind, but how the story is going to go from Point A to Point Z is something I make up as I go along.

Lois Lowry

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 20, 1937

Topics

MyselfMindDestinationStartStory

I am blessed with the energy of a chimpanzee. There is nothing I can't get up for and give it a hundred percent.

Jimmy Iovine

I AmBlessedEnergyNothingUpGet

So many people ask me, 'Do you like 'Departed?' I say, '50/50.'

Andrew Lau

PeopleMeYouSayAskLike

Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.

Melvyn Bragg

MusicEverythingOperaArtsOnce

I never wear very serious suits. I don't have to because I don't go to an office, so it's fine.

Jean Pigozzi

SuitsGoSeriousNeverOfficeWear

My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I'm much better there than I am on screen.

Stacy Keach

StrengthMyselfI AmBetterKnow

Lily Tomlin was one of the early comedy greats who influenced my courage to be the person I am.

Tracee Ellis Ross

CourageI AmComedyEarlyPersonAm

I just tell the truth. Some people don't like it. Some people do.

Tony Bellew

TruthPeopleSome PeopleTellJust

I've driven all through America and I know there are a lot of clever people between the coasts. But they have a slightly old-fashioned view of the world. Whereas New York is one of the most multicultural, multiracial, tolerant places on Earth.

Robbie Coltrane

New YorkPeopleWorldViewAmerica

For my tribe, the people I found years ago, we've found sanctuary in the irreverent, in the off-center, in the quirky... And that's how we stay entertained, and that's how we stay engaged in what would otherwise seem to be a really cruel world. A really harsh world.

RuPaul

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I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decision, not mine. I'm going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart.

Michael Phelps

HeartDecisionMindMeYouKnow

Every role that you play comes with its own set of challenges.

Mireille Enos

ChallengesYouPlayOwnRoleSet

The Longstockings are eight children's and young adult writers. We all came out of the New School MFA program, and we meet regularly to critique each other's work.

Lisa Graff

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