Suzanne Collins Quotes

Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.

'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.

I've been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don't think there is anything.

I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.

I've grown up, luckily, with only a distant relationship to war and soldiering.

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it's just 18-year-old kids.

You're working with adults and you're being paid to do a job. And you're a kid. Then you go back to high school, and everybody's partying, and they're doing math. I always felt a little bit outside of it. Outside of both experiences, really.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.

My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

I don't think I'd call myself a war writer, but I would probably say I'm a writer who has written about war.

I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.

Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.

I have fought for many years. I have killed many men. I have never seen a foreigner die.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.

To march over dead men, to hear without concern the groans of the wounded, I say few men can stand such scenes unless steeled by habit or fortified by military pride.

Those of us who were 12 or 13 when the war started were absolutely thrown into the mainstream. We had to grow up instantly and take care of ourselves.