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.

She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.

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

You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver himself was not able to describe it, only to remind us that you would be faced with it, that you would need immense courage.

And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.

People in the know say The Giver was the first young adult dystopian novel.

We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.