If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.
When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych ward, I don't think, but they become very real, like my own family, and then I have to say goodbye, close the door, and work on other things.
What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?
So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.
Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.
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.
People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.
I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren't many things that I feel I have left undone.
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.
Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.
I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.
"I liked the feeling of love," [Jonas] confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, reassuring himself that no one was listening. "I wish we still had that," he whispered. "Of course," he added quickly, "I do understand that it wouldn't work very well. And that it's much better to be organized the way we are now. I can see that it was a dangerous way to live." [...] "Still," he said slowly, almost to himself, "I did like the light they made. And the warmth."
For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.
I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.
Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.
There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.
Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.
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.
Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises are coming next.
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.
You will fail. Then they will kill you." - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial.
I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am a person who cares about kids and who cares about truth and I am guided by my own instincts, and trust them.
I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews, and so I'm aware of what's out there. But I tend not to read the books.
I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There are no religious overtones. Looking back at my books, I can say, 'Oh, yes, it is there.' But it's not in my mind when I write.
There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship
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