Lois Lowry Quotes

The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.

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• Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Country
  • Society
  • Free

• Stars arrive on their own timetable.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Stars
  • Own
  • Arrive

• All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • American
  • President
  • Ever

• The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • American
  • Think
  • Boy

• My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Size
  • Contribution
  • Finance

• No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Book
  • Hell
  • Sales

• The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • You
  • Mood
  • Sit

• The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.

  

  Rain
  • People
  • Mother
  • Success

• Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Remember
  • Kid
  • Conversation

• Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Good
  • May

• Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.

  

  Ian Hart
  • You
  • Like
  • Well

• Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • People
  • Test
  • Testing

• I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Taste
  • Cultural
  • Zones

• I'm still very much Kate.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Very
  • Still
  • Kate

• I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Age
  • Angry
  • Old

• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • You
  • Reflection
  • Artistry

• I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Myself
  • Look
  • Appearance

• Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Growth
  • Ambition
  • Proceeds

• An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Mind
  • Feels
  • Praise

• Only once did I make Shireen sit down with me for a formal interview. She talked about the need to rebuild what she called "the culture of resistance" that she remembered experiencing during the Second Intifada, but which had since evaporated, replaced by a dull consumerist individualism, by "this illusion that if I forget about Palestine, build a career, take a loan, buy a car, build a house, watch Arab Idol on TV, it's all be okay; that if they're not raiding *your* house, you're okay." In a culture constructed around a shared goal of liberation, she said, "my house is your house and your son is my son and if they kill me today they will kill you tomorrow.

  

  Ben Ehrenreich
  • House
  • Culture
  • Son

• I never try to follow a trend or fashion.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Fashion
  • Never
  • Try

• We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Forever
  • Travel

• Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller.

  

  Meghan O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Mother

• The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.

  

  Lois Lowry
  • Lost
  • Son