Suzanne Collins
Suzanne Collins
Suzanne Marie Collinsis an American television writer and novelist, best known as the author of The New York Times best selling series The Underland Chronicles and The Hunger Games trilogy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 August 1962
CountryUnited States of America
brother growing-up children
I have two older sisters and one older brother and hold them largely responsible for the trouble I got into growing up. I believe as the youngest child, that is my right.
writing character thinking
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.
fighting years daggers
When I was young, I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger for several years.
children war thinking
I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at an early age.
games long focus
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.
war writing adolescence
I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
depression light quiet
Something small and quiet, like a match being struck, lights up the gloom inside of me.
girl girl-talk
Girl talk. That thing I've always been so bad at.
katniss scream
Where did they get those screams, Katniss?
hate married ends
That it's no good loving me because I'm never going to get married anyway and he'd just end up hating me later instead of sooner.
hands worry faces
I take Peeta's face in my hands. "Don't worry. I'll see you at midnight.
finnick finnick-odair
Why...do you find this...distracting?
running pain giving
I drink in his wholeness, the soudness of his body and mind. It runs through me like the morphling they give me in the hospital, dulling the pain of the last weeks.
katniss may sparks
Katniss Everdeen, you have caused a spark, wich left unattended, may cause a spark that could cause a whole rebelion