Suzanne Collins Quotes

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

I think you can only prepare yourself as much as you can, but no matter what, there will be curve balls. I had no idea I'd be taking a flight, landing, and heading straight to a radio station. I thought I might have time to curl my hair, have something to eat. No! You go right into things.

But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.

You can't prepare for something that you can't prepare for.

With me, you never know what is going to happen

World is suddener than we fancy it.

If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.

You never know what could be interesting tomorrow.

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

I'm kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what's around the corner.

When you are live you never know what is going to happen.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

A lot of people didn't realize that with the carpet being pulled out from under me in such a short time frame I got to such a bad place.

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

I think surprises make TV entertaining.

Adventure is just bad planning.

Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

I like life to surprise me.

'A Little Nightmare Music' is the first show we created. It's about all the nightmares that can happen in the span of a concert. When things go wrong - when the lights go out or a cellphone rings - that's when an audience suddenly comes alive, wondering what's going to happen next. Things going wrong often leads to something good.

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

We don't appreciate luck in life when things are going well. No matter how smart I am and how I prepare, there are things that catch you off guard.