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

~Lois Lowry

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I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews, and so I'm aware of what's out there. But I tend not to read the books.

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I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world.

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I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read 'The Giver' now have their own kids who are reading it. Even from the beginning, the book attracted an audience beyond a child audience.

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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.

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

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People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.

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I always set out to tell a good story, to create a character that young people can relate to, place them in a situation that will be interesting, intriguing, eventually suspenseful. But what I find is that after I do that, then there are themes that emerge, which teachers can then use to provoke discussion and debate.

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If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it.

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The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: March 20th, 1937

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