Quotes from Suzanne Collins

I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it.

How much better my life has been for knowing him. For loving him, even if it's only in the limited way that I can manage. But I never get the chance.

if i win and you die, i dont have a home to go back to. you are my life.

Sick and disoriented, I'm able to form only one thought: Peeta Mellark just saved my life.

The heat of the bread burned into my skin, but I clutched it tighter, clinging to life.

If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence.

Each time I wake,I think, At last, this is over, but it isn't.

I'm thrilled with the work Tim Palen and his marketing team have done on the film. It's appropriately disturbing and thought-provoking how the campaign promotes 'Catching Fire' while simultaneously promoting the Capitol's punitive forms of entertainment.

Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.

But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece o time we call today.

The air's warm with hopeful hints of spring in it. Spring would be a good time for an uprising, I think. Everyone feels less vulnerable once winter passes.

I've spent so much time making sure I don't underestimate my opponents that I've forgotten it's just as dangerous to overestimate them as well.

That was the first time I ever saw him smile. It transformed him from someone menacing to someone you wished you knew.

Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept up on me.

I lean over and put my good ear to his lips, which tickle me as he whispers. "Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me any time you like it.

I keep hoping that as time passes by, we'll regain the ease between us, but part of me knows it's futile. There's no going back.

Haymitch in my head full-time. Horrifying

Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.

One time, my mother told me that I always eat like I'll never see food again. And I said, "I won't unless I bring it home." That shut her up.

All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story... You've got good characters... People think there's some dramatic difference between writing 'Little Bear' and the 'Hunger Games,' and as a writer, for me, there isn't.

I wrote 'The Hunger Games' in a chair, like a La-Z-Boy chair, next to my bed. I had an office, but my kids sort of took it over.

One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories.

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.