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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.

From Lois Lowry

I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that what intrigued me was not the science, not the chemistry or biology of medicine, but the narrative - the story of each patient, each illness.

From Lois Lowry

I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.

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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.

From Lois Lowry

You rehear your life by reading about what happens to other people.

From Lois Lowry

When I was a kid in the '50s, during the Eisenhower years, everything seemed to be working fine. I don't recall as a teenager ever worrying about the state of the future world.

From Lois Lowry

People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.

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Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

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Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but that's because they haven't accepted the fact that a movie is a different thing, and it can't possibly be the same as the book.

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As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium.

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