Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

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

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.

Every 'no' means you are that much closer to a 'yes.

So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship