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
home waiting parent
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.
home excellent novel
The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel.
powerful faithful vision
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.
hate sick honest
To be honest, I'm not much of a drinker. It makes me sick, and I hate that.
war lying tired
One night, I was lying in bed, and I was channel surfing between reality TV programs and actual war coverage. On one channel, there's a group of young people competing for I don't even know; and on the next, there's a group of young people fighting in an actual war. I was really tired, and the lines between these stories started to blur in a very unsettling way. That's the moment when Katniss's story came to me.
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?