Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule. Lois Lowry More Quotes by Lois Lowry More Quotes From Lois Lowry The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied being a private person, actually requires you to be a public person as well, and those are two separate entities to me. Lois Lowry personmeyousurprise When you lose a child in an accident as I did, it's final - you're not caught in this longing for him, to search for him, knowing he's out there some place. Lois Lowry loseplacechildyou Oddly, the military world is one of great sameness. There is an orderly quality to life on an army base, and even the children of the military are brought up with that sense of order and sameness. Lois Lowry greatqualitylifechildren 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. Lois Lowry islandgenerationarmybook I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance. Lois Lowry writerlikenuancesubtlety People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs. Lois Lowry memoirslieletterspeople People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is defined. But if it means that 10, 20, 50 years from now kids will still be reading it, that is kind of awe-inspiring. Lois Lowry willknowreadingpeople
