The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

I don't know what you mean when you say 'the whole world' or 'generations before him.'I thought there was only us. I thought there was only now.

You will fail. Then they will kill you." - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial.