Suzanne Collins Quotes

Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?

Going under the water and staying under the water for periods of time gives me claustrophobia.

There it is: I am gently slipping into the water's depths, towards fear.

I like to play the grey areas in life - that's the most uncomfortable place to be. Nobody likes to be in that in-between state where there don't know what's going to happen. There's a lot of tension in that, and a lot of stuff to play with - where it's uncomfortable and awkward and sad and scary.

I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.

No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.

I didn't know anything about it, I swear. Nor did Dave Bassett. We were sitting there saying 'What's happening here?'. It is frightening. A nightmare.

Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.

Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him.

Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.

They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.

What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month?

And when suddenly the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry, uttered the words: ‘He has turned round’ – she comprehended nothing and said softly: ‘Who?

One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed her and did not leave her until the night closed in catastrophe for she had no instinct for self-preservation if she was confronted by ambiguities.

The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.

Whatever you think this is going to be like," she whispers, "it's going to be worse.

It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.

Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.

If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean.

I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers!

Quite suddenly Meggie felt fear rise in her like black brackish water, she felt lost, terribly lost, she felt it in every part of her. She didn't belong here! What had she done?

Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?

The charm of your society, My Sparrow, lies in not knowing what will you say next - though one rapidly learns to fear the worst!

That's the scary thing about hope," she said. "If you let it go too long it turns into faith.