Reading is the most important way to prepare for life.

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

I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine thing to look into a giggle.

It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.

And it was lonely, to yearn, all alone.

If everyting's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!" (Jonas) "It's the choosing that's imortant, isn't it?" The Giver asked him.

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.