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Veronica Roth

Literary Birthday – 19 August – Veronica Roth

Happy Birthday, Veronica Roth, born on 19 August 1988.

Veronica Roth Quotes

  1. I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
  2. My advice to young writers is manifold. The first is: learn to love criticism. The second piece of advice is: be persistent. And last: be patient.
  3. When you’re a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that’s really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff. But when a book comes out, it’s just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
  4. If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you’ve created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there’s no conflict, there are no stories worth telling – or reading!
  5. I think it’s fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.

Veronica Roth is the #1 New York Times bestselling American author of When Among Crows, Arch-Conspirator, Poster Girl, Chosen Ones, the Divergent series, and the Carve the Mark duology. She is best known for her Divergent trilogy of science fiction novels for young adults, which unfolds as a coming-of-age story set in a post-apocalyptic Chicago. The trilogy was a huge commercial success, with more than 35 million copies sold worldwide. All three of the books were adapted for film. She received the Goodreads Favourite Book of 2011 and she is the 2012 Goodreads winner for Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction. In 2026 she published Seek the Traitor’s Son, a dystopian novel for adults. Roth’s fiction explores identity, free will, power, courage, and belonging, often placing young characters in systems that demand obedience and asking what happens when they choose to resist. Follow her on Instagram.

Source for Image: Author’s website, credit Nelson Fitch
Read more about Veronica’s Writing Advice http://veronicarothbooks.blogspot.com/p/faqs.html


by Amanda Patterson
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Posted on: 19th August 2013
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