Latest Veronica Roth Quotes from Interviews

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• The official strategy is defensive pessimism, always.

  Veronica Roth

  Pessimism, Strategy, Officials

  Source: collider.com

• I feel acutely aware of how young I am. In a way that is good. It's productive. It makes me realise that I should be growing as a writer and a person.

  Veronica Roth

  Growing, Way, Should

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

• I slowly realized that perfectionism just not that important. What's more important is to try to love the people around you. Whatever that means at a particular time is the best you can do.

  Veronica Roth

  Mean, People, Important

• When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them. This dystopian trend picks up on that little part of your life where everything feels really extreme and it honors that part of your life and says, "Yeah. It is the end of the world. Look at it."

  Veronica Roth

  Teenager, Silly, Thinking

  "Interview: Veronica Roth on her book 'Insurgent' and feminism". "Jacket Copy", latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 30, 2012.

• I don't want to try to live up to someone who's created something so incredible. I'm just trying to focus on what I'm doing and what I do best. It's sometimes hard to focus in and only think about my books rather than how they measure up to someone else's.

  Veronica Roth

  Book, Thinking, Focus

• I know that I'll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the teachers and librarians that I interact with.

  Veronica Roth

  Teacher, Writing, Long

• I don't really control the story. I just let it go where it wants to go. I have no idea what's going to happen in the end or who's going to live, so it's kind of like me saying, "I don't know, guys! Just wait." That's what I'm doing!

  Veronica Roth

  Ideas, Waiting, Guy

• I see love developing from friendship. Common ground is a strong basis for friendship. My husband is my best friend and we have a lot in common even though we're admittedly different people. I think it evolves from how I see relationships working. You know, the opposites attract thing happens all the time, but so does the best friends thing. It's just a great kind of relationship in fiction.

  Veronica Roth

  Strong, Husband, Thinking

• You need to be passionate about the creative work that you're doing, but you need to be kind of emotionally separated from how people react to it or how it does. Those things should be secondary, and primary should be your love of the creative act.

  Veronica Roth

  People, Creative, Doe

  Source: www.sun-sentinel.com

• Sometimes you just need to talk to someone who is detached from you. They just listen to what you tell them and you get to form the way that they see you, whereas everyone else in your life already thinks they know what you're dealing with or what you're going through. That's my recommendation for actual anxiety.

  Veronica Roth

  Thinking, Anxiety, Needs

  Source: www.sun-sentinel.com

• I'm a fairly religious person, so I believe in some things that sound a little crazy I'm sure, depending on where you're standing. I believe in leaving room for things that you can't explain in the universe, and you don't have to be religious to leave room for those things.

  Veronica Roth

  Religious, Crazy, Believe

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• I try to leave some space in my mind for things to surprise me or change my mind, I think that's important.

  Veronica Roth

  Thinking, Space, Mind

  "Veronica Roth and Garth Nix: Sizing up two YA giants". Interview with Garth Nix, www.chicagotribune.com. October 8, 2014.

• I love the Wikipedia link chain because it has led me into some strange articles. Wikipedia is one of my favorites.

  Veronica Roth

  Wikipedia, Links, Strange

  "Veronica Roth and Garth Nix: Sizing up two YA giants". Interview with Jenniffer Weigel, www.chicagotribune.com. October 8, 2014.