S.W. Collins Quotes

I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing else.

Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.

Obviously this person's a hazard. Stupid people are dangerous.

Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them.

if he goes and dies on me now, I know I'll go completely insane.

Politicians study hard and work diligently their entire lives to be able to stand in front of a national audience and lie through their teeth.

Whenever I write a story, I hope it appeals to both boys and girls.

I don't know if this is too weird to say, but this is completely surreal for me. Bizarre. The cover of 'Teen Vogue' has been on my bucket list forever.

Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.

I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at an early age.

I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a physician. So, I'm a physician scientist.

I've three children, three grandchildren, I work, I travel, and I'm very happily married. I'm very satisfied and happy with my life and there really isn't anything I want.

Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.

I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday.

I am a fan of marriage and a fan of being committed to the right person.

The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.

Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it.

I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me.

Fred Astaire is the Carioca, the Continental, the very Piccolino of romance.

Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.

Murderer who lives in my building. His name is Dan Bevacqua. Hes a fiction writer.

Some difficulty is warranted and other difficulty I think is gratuitous. And I think I can tell the difference. There are certainly very difficult poets that I really enjoy reading.

I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil.

All I wanted was to be a pea of being inside the green pod of time.

I could feel the day offering itself to me, and I wanted nothing more than to be in the moment-but which moment? Not that one, or that one, or that one.

Form is any aspect of a poem that encourages it to stay whole and not drift off into chaos.

When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy your anti-poetry deflector shields that were installed in high school.

Vade Mecum I want the scissors to be sharp and the table perfectly level when you cut me out of my life and paste me in that book you always carry.

life is a loaded gun that looks right at you with a yellow eye.

The really authentic thing about humor is that anyone can pretend to be serious. Anyone who's ever had a job - in fact, we're pretending to be serious now, more or less.

I was a pretty happy kid, I had to fake it. I had to get into this miserable character before I wrote poems.

I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow.

The literary world is so full of pretension, and there's such an enormous gap between how seriously poets take themselves and how widely they're ignored by everybody else.

When I wrote I took on the role of the despondent and difficult to understand person. Whereas in life, I was easy to understand, to the point of being simple-minded maybe.

Until recently, I thought 'occasional poetry' meant that you wrote only occasionally.

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

I see the progress typical in some of my poems as starting with something simple and moving into something more demanding. This is certainly the pattern of weird poetry.

...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.

This love for everyday things, part natural from the wide eye of Infancy, part a literary calculation

I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word accessible.

I could look at you forever and never see the two of us together

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

It seems only yesterday I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I could shine.

I was able to read poets that were - allowed me to be humorous without being silly.

Skid marks all across my brain, cause you're leaving me with so much pain. I was pretty sure that you could be the one, now it is evident that it was hit and run.

Whether they're glad or mortified to have said whatever, Paul Fein wasn't going to let such good quotes get away from us.

Comedy is great; you get to laugh! Life is so serious.

We all have our demons, even if we say we don't.

I'm so busy trying to be other people. You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because they don't want to hire you.