Taking the time to read to children is not only a worthwhile investment but also a wonderful experience. I have visited 119 schools in Maine, and... →
Susan Collins
If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which I read when I was about 8... →
Suzanne Collins
One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.
Any time you read a book and get attached to the characters, to me it's always a shock when it goes from page to screen and it's not exactly... →
'Lord of the Flies' is one of my favorite books. That was a big influence on me as a teenager; I still read it every couple of years.
I sort of half read Thomas Hardy's 'The Mayor of Casterbridge.' It was assigned in 10th grade, and I just couldn't get into it. About... →
I think people respond to dystopian stories because they're ways of acting out anxieties that we have and fears that we have about the future. So... →
I loved 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.' I read it later as an adult, but I loved 'We Have Always Lived in a Castle.' And that brings you... →
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being... →
Charles Caleb Colton
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.