Suzanne Collins Quotes

• An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

  Suzanne Collins

  Topics in Ability, Life

• Embrace the probability of your imminent death….and know there is nothing i can do to save you.

  Suzanne Collins

  Topics in Death

• Aim higher in case you fall short.

  Suzanne Collins

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in Aim

• The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I’m the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.

  Suzanne Collins

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Myself, Idea

• Destroying things is much easier than making them

  Suzanne Collins

  Topics in Life

• Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.

  Suzanne Collins

  Topics in Humor

• Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying

  Suzanne Collins

  Topics in Humor

• It crosses my mind that Cinna’s calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.

  Suzanne Collins

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Mind

• I’m not a very fancy person. I’ve been a writer a long time, and right now ‘The Hunger Games’ is getting a lot of focus. It’ll pass. The focus will be on something else. It’ll shift. It always does. And that seems just fine.

  Suzanne Collins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fancy, Person

• Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he’s also brought a rich and powerful vision of Panem, its brutality and excesses, to the film as well. His world building’s fantastic, whether it be the Seam or the Capitol.

  Suzanne Collins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adaptation, Created

• I don’t write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

  Suzanne Collins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Adolescence

• I’ve just had the opportunity to see the finished film of ‘The Hunger Games.’ I’m really happy with how it turned out. I feel like the book and the film are individual yet complementary pieces that enhance one another.

  Suzanne Collins

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Film

• 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.

  Suzanne Collins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Parent, Young

• The film opens up the world beyond Katniss’ point of view, allowing the audience access to the happenings of places like the Hunger Games control room and President Snow’s rose garden, thereby adding a new dimension to the story.

  Suzanne Collins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Film

• It’s amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly realized through the artistry of the designers.

  Suzanne Collins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Amazing

• The cast, led by the extraordinary Jennifer Lawrence, is absolutely wonderful across the board. It’s such a pleasure to see how they’ve embodied the characters and brought them to life.

  Suzanne Collins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Extraordinary
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  Fire burns brighter in the darkness.

  Suzanne Collins

  Tags in Darkness, Fire

Suzanne Collins (37)

Birth:	10th August, 1962
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Screenwriter

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