You don't really want an army of people making individual decisions. And I don't think I completely understood that until people gave me examples of what happens when your army takes over your government and it's like, "Oh, yeah, I guess you can't really have people make individual moral decisions."

You don't get anywhere without saying yes.

I wish I'd legitimately talked about some painful moments in my life where I felt insufficient as a kid.

With a Q&A, you need obviously to keep it snappy.

If you're at my level and you go to a bookstore, even a good turnout is not that many people. Sometimes it is. But for the most part, it's not a huge turnout.

I have some idea that if I pick on [boy band] One Direction, I'll get a ton of hate mail, because I know that when you're 15, you love a band like you will kill people. But I don't quite realize that that's true about people - adults - who read The Hunger Games.

I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.