Suzanne Collins Quotes

I grew up loving books and stories. Reading became my favourite pastime, and you have to be a reader before you can be a writer.

Reading is No. 1 - I have to read, or I can't write.

My mother was a big reader, and my father was an editorial writer for a newspaper.

When I was a kid in year one and year two, I had troubles with reading and writing, and my mum took me to St. Vinnies and we bought this big box of second-hand books, and she worked with me to turn that weakness around, you know.

I had to live with the models in one big house for two months, 24 hours a day. Only a few of them actually learned how to sign... I couldn't really communicate with anybody, and I felt isolated.

I know a lot of writers who tell me they 'always' knew how to read. They can't remember a time before reading. And those writers make me want to tear my hair out.

I'm a fan of writing, and writing letters, because I hate when I'm trying to get a thought out, and I can't.

Writing is more important than being a writer.

Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.

I can read and arrange, but I can't write.

The problem of the chimps is that they can only sit and look. They can't discuss what they feel. All that feeling is trapped within each one.

There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.

Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.

Read! Read! Read! And then read some more. When you find something that thrills you, take it apart paragraph by paragraph, line by line, word by word, to see what made it so wonderful. Then use those tricks next time you write.

I think maybe the most frustrating feeling in the world is to have something to say buy not know how to put it into words. To have lived through something but not be able to get it out of you before it festers.

If I could only write, I'd write a nasty letter to the mayor, if he could only read.

Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything.

Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash.

As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind out, she thought.

I've just always been a reader. My grandmother just expressed the importance of literacy, if I said that correctly. She just always expressed the importance of being able to write and being able to read.

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on.

Reading is more important than writing.