Suzanne Collins Quotes

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

I always want my options to be open.

I enjoy making the decisions.

A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.

I just kind of feel like it's my choice to do what I want to do. And my agent, he's totally with it. He tells me, 'You can turn down any audition you don't want to.'

I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.

As you grow and mature, you will want and will earn more freedom to live your lives your way and to make your own choices. This you should do.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

The more choices you have--the more options you have, the better off you are.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

When one has genuinely chosen a course for oneself it cannot be possible to hold another responsible for it.

For my life, I need to make my own choices.

Actually being able to exercise your own choice can bring about greater opportunity.

Being independent in my choices is important to me.

Exercising choice is a good thing.

I would like to have a right not to have an opinion. I don't want to have to care about everything.

When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.

Freedom is not a constant attribute which we either "have" or "have not." In fact, there is no such thing as "freedom" except as a word and an abstract concept. There is only one reality: the act of freeing ourselves in the process of making choices. In this process the degree of our capacity to make choices varies with each act, with our practice of life.

I do what I love to do. I have awesome people who let me make the choices I want to make. I navigate things by whether I want to play a part or not, to be honest.

You need your freedom. You need to be able to do what you want to do as a journalist, as a person who's speaking for other women as you speak for yourself, and you make a choice. You have to be tough enough to take the consequences of that choice.

It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.