Suzanne Collins Quotes

Decree of Self-Reproach

You always think, "Oh, I'm sure I could have done that better." But generally speaking, I am very proud of this.

Maybe he thinks he can rescue me? No one is that stupid.

When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.

The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me.

I can't stand reading anything that I've said.

I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way.

The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.

I've seen my performances. I don't like them.

I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.

Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.

Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.

I look back on my work and I think, 'Oh, why didn't I do that differently?'

I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment.

When I look back, I think I could have done this scene or that better. I am not satisfied with my work at all. I think I could have done better. I am never satisfied.

To the outside world, I was pretty bad at everything my whole life. People didn't credit me for my musicianship.

I do watch some of my losses, but it just makes me think, 'Well, you know, should have done this; could have done that.' But that's why I don't like watching it. It's a shoulda/coulda/woulda thing.

I hate watching myself because when I watch anything I've ever done, I realize all the ways I could have done it better.

The reality is almost everything I do I cringe about later.

You'll be scandalized in the morning when you can think again.

Shame: We all have it. It's that gremlin that says 'I'm not enough.' Or, if you're feeling pretty confident,...'ooh, who do you think you are?' Shame always has a seat.

I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, 'Hell, is it too late?'

I think that we're our own worst enemies in a lot of ways, especially when it comes to doing work where you're criticized a lot or doing work where there's a lot of hater directed at you; and to not constantly second-guess yourself.

There was I thinking being a shifter had its upsides. Looks like I was wrong.

I knew I would replay the scene countless times in the years before me, each time thinking of different things I should have said and done. But all I did was walk away without looking back.