S.W. Collins Quotes

You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.

I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important

Don't let him take you from me.

Katniss, got that spile?" Finnick asks, snapping me back to reality.

I don't know how to make people like me. Cinna, how do you make people like you?

Birds are settling down for the night, singing lullabies to their young.

I can't consider myself a drummer any more.

To play someone I loved in my favourite fairytale as a kid is a total honour.

He became my confidante, someone with whom I could share thoughts I could never voice...In exchange, he trusted me with his.

Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.

If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?

I had some difficult times when I first moved to Los Angeles when people would tell me I was saying things wrong. I felt different although my mum kept reminding me it was OK to be different.

What was that you were saying just before the food arrived? Something about me... no competition... best thing that ever happened to you.

Things can change in an instant, so why not live truthfully?

Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.

I do think you're mad and I'll still go with you.

Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.

Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.

To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.

Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams.

You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.

Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with the Positivists.

Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.

[Kid] never learned to read in kindergarten, first, and second, so in third grade he begins to be placed in the EMH or the learning-disabled rooms.

[My book is] a collection of letters and essays about what it takes to be a young woman today. Mostly the taboo things that girls don't want to talk about, but once we do we realize we're not alone.

I'm a huge fan of the series of books by Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments. I'm a fan myself, so to be cast as the lead heroine is completely incredible.

I think, Larry, one of the things is I'm a very active person.

deep in the meadow , under the willow , a bed of grass , a soft green pillow

Positioned on my dresser, that white-as-snow rose is a personal message to me. It speaks of unfinished business. It whispers, I can find you. I can reach you. Perhaps I am watching you now.

If you were starving and had all the time in the world, would you stop eating the greatest slice of cake on earth halfway through? Then why would you quit on your dreams?

When children see Michael Jackson they see a human being. When adults see him they see money.

No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.

My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They're the ones we naturally remember the best, after all.

I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.

I don't think it's going to work out. Winning...won't help in any case. Because...she came here with me. - Peeta Mellark

As I've gotten older and learned more, I realise that Hollywood has not told the truth.

Wait for it, wait for it! Anticipation is half the fun, So I've been told...

I was never afraid of going after what I wanted, and making that known, and being vocal about it.

Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you side step that?

If it's the beginning of something - like an album, I'm working on the lyrics and I take a walkman and headset.

Why? Do you find this" - he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose - "distracting?

District 12. Where you can starve to death in safety," I mutter. Then I glance quickly over my shoulder. Even here, in the middle of nowhere, you worry someone might overhear you.

People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me." His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven.