I don't know what you mean when you say 'the whole world' or 'generations before him.'I thought there was only us. I thought there was only now.

Gabe?" The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love", Jonas whispered.

It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.

Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.

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

I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.

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.