Veronica Roth Quotes

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story!

I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.

Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.

If we had a perfect world, we can do 'Scandal' during the day and 'Murder' at night - that's the optimal thing.

Utopia means elsewhere.

I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.

I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books aloud to me. I learned that words are powerful.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what we do. That's what storytellers do.

I grew up loving books and stories. Reading became my favourite pastime, and you have to be a reader before you can be a writer.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

Even as a little kid, I told lots of stories, and I wrote them down, and I loved reading fiction and fantasy.

We can make this country the garden of Eden.

Without science fiction, without the influence these books have had on me over the years, I'm not sure I would care much about reading or writing today.

Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.

I was 4 and dictating stories into a tape recorder, and my mom typed them up.

Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.

Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.

Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.