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Lois Lowry

  • Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.

  • Memory is the happiness of being alone.

  • Every 'no' means you are that much closer to a 'yes.'

    • Lois Lowry,
    • in Suzanne Harper, ed., Hands On! 22 More Things Every Girl Should Know ()
  • I make up the characters in my books, but of course my consciousness is filled with every child I've ever known, including my two grandchildren, my own kids (I had four) and especially myself as a child, because that person still lives inside me, too.

    • Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry, U.S. writer, Newbery winner (twice)

(1937)

Full name: Lois Ann Hammersberg Lowry.