Suzanne Collins Quotes

It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.

I think when you're trying to improve, the most important thing is to always have a plan.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

A goal without a plan is only a dream.

Fine. I'll train. But I'm going to the stinking capitol if I have to kill a crew and fly there myself." Says Johanna. "Probably best not to bring that up in training," I say. "But it's nice to know I'll have a ride.

A wish has been defined as a 'goal with no energy behind it.' Hope is not a strategy.

Revolution begins with one step

Subversion is what I do.

Moving first is a tactic, not a goal.

Yes, everyone in the districts will be watching me to see how I handle this death sentence, this final act of President Snow’s dominance. They will be looking for some sign that their battles have not been in vain. If I can make it clear that I’m still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed me…but not my spirit. What better way to give hope to the rebels?

Katniss, there is no District Twelve.

In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.

Revolution is the only thing, the only power, that ever worked out freedom for any people. The powers that have ruled long and learned to love ruling, will never give up that prerogative until they must, till they see the certainty of overthrow and destruction if they do not. To plant-to revolutionize-these are the twin stars that have ruled our pathway. What have we then to dread in the word Revolution-we, the children of rebels!

In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.

You have to fight for what you need to fight for.

Murphy hung up and I said, to the still-open line, "Hey, if you've got someone watching my place, could you call the cops if anyone tries to steal my Star Wars poster? It's an original." Then I vindictively hung up on the FBI. It made my inner child happy.

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what's your plan to read?

Roses. Wolf mutts. Tributes. Frosted Dolphins. Friends. Mockingjays. Stylists. Me. Everything screams in my dreams tonight.

So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.

Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.

Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.

... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.