Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times. Suzanne Collins Read Quote
I try to catch flies in cups and put them outside. After I wrote ‘The Underland Chronicles’… well, once you start naming cockroaches, you lose your edge. Suzanne Collins Read Quote
In ‘The Hunger Games,’ in most people’s idea, in terms of rebellion or a civil-war situation, that would meet the criteria for a necessary war. These people are oppressed, their children are being taken off and put in gladiator games. They’re impoverished, they’re starving, they’re brutalized. Suzanne Collins Read Quote
I think people respond to dystopian stories because they’re ways of acting out anxieties that we have and fears that we have about the future. So much media’s coming at you over the Internet, your brain gets overloaded. You don’t know what to do with it. And one thing you can do with it is read a story. Suzanne Collins Read Quote
One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read. Suzanne Collins Read Quote
Katniss Everdeen owes her last name to Bathsheba Everdene, the lead character in ‘Far From the Madding Crowd.’ The two are very different, but both struggle with knowing their hearts. Suzanne Collins Read Quote
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. Suzanne Collins Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Kids have so much screen time, and it’s a concern. I know how overloaded I can feel sometimes. Suzanne Collins Read Quote