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

Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.

As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium.

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

I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.

I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.