I have had, like most women, a lifelong preoccupation with my weight. My first published short story was a love story between an elderly man and a very young morbidity obese woman.

The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

I hum some secret place into being, thinking of this other me, the one that only I can see, a girl called She, who is not We, a girl who I will never be.

Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

I'm not alone in having obese people in my circle and in my family. I have loved morbidly obese people, and I don't approach obesity with revulsion or judgment but with empathy and compassion.

Art isn't a product. It's an experience

The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.

the only thing left to do is love

If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead.

How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.

Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.

Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.

The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.

Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

The audience cares what the movie looks like, not about the sleepless night you had worrying about the thing getting developed.

I’m pretty masochistic. I kill myself for my craft – Literally

There's nothing I can't live with. Only things I won't live without.

I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails.

Abbreviators do harm to knowledge and to love.

Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.

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