Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.

When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.

I left home at the correct time but when I was riding along near the hatchery, the crew was separating some salmon, I guess I just got distraught, watching them.

Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.

For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.