I think when you've had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you've already proven yourself. They're excited about what you're doing, you have people interested in it, and actually waiting for it. It's empowering.

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.

There's much more. There's all that goes beyond – all ... that is Elsewhere – and all that goes back, and back, and back. I received all of those, when I was selected. And here in this room, all alone, I re-experience them again and again. It is how wisdom comes. And how we shape our future.

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself

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.

If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.