Suzanne Collins Quotes

Did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding?

I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

I thought he had been shot.

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.

Footage of young people getting shot. That bothers me. It hits a nerve.

I wasn't angry the night I shot him.

We can and must turn this around. If you're going to kill someone just pull the trigger.

I was shot from the funny gun.

On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.

In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.

I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?

Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.

You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way.

Why on earth does anybody watch that stuff [television violence]?

What we watch on television, we approve.

The worst thing about this modern world is that people think you get killed on television with zero pain and zero blood. It must enter into kids' heads that it's not very messy to kill somebody, and it doesn't hurt that much. That's a real sickness to me. That's a real sick thing.

They are shooting at people for reasons they don’t remember.

I wonder why he shot me?.

The most violent show on TV is the six o'clock news.

At the end of the day, there's not a day that goes by without a mass shooting.

There's nothing like being shot on camera.

I've seen people get robbed, seen people get shot with my own eyes, for pointless petty crimes.

In a little over six minutes, 17 of our friends were taken from us. Fifteen were injured. And everyone - absolutely everyone - in the Douglas Community was forever altered.

I've got a scar on my shin from when I got shot in New York when I was 17. I was outside a McDonald's and somebody shot a gun from a car, and the bullet grazed my leg.

My mom got shot. My dad got shot. Some of the craziest stuff. All that happened to me.