Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It's just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.


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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
VERONICA ROTH
I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.
VERONICA ROTH
There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of y...
TIM ROTH
When they were casting, Denis was very specific that he didn't want any actors from L.A. and I was l...
ANDREA ROTH
He's a dream. He's the greatest. We shoot about 14 pages a day, which is maybe seven different scene...
ANDREA ROTH
All the characters are good and bad. None of them are soft and fluffy.
ANDREA ROTH
We got a great response (after the first episode) from firemen and their wives, but since then, cert...
ANDREA ROTH
Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going t...
ELI ROTH
Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-ge...
ELI ROTH
You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes ...
TIM ROTH
'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. I...
ELI ROTH
In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to ...
VERONICA ROTH
I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice."
"What Choice?"
"Daunt...
VERONICA ROTH
I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for your...
VERONICA ROTH
Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.
VERONICA ROTH
For a few minutes we kiss, deep in the chasm, with the roar of water all around us. And we rise, han...
VERONICA ROTH
People tend to overestimate my character," I say quietly. "They think that because I'm small, or a g...
VERONICA ROTH
You think giving you a hug would give away too much?" he says.
"You know," I say. "I really don...
VERONICA ROTH
One Choice

One Choice, decided your friends.

One Choice, defines your beliefs....
VERONICA ROTH
Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.
VERONICA ROTH
You know, most boys would enjoy being trapped in close quarters with a girl." I roll my eyes.
"...
VERONICA ROTH
I feel his heartbeat against my cheek,as fast as my own.
"Are you afraid of me, too, Tobias?" VERONICA ROTH
Somewhere inside me is a merciful, forgiving person. Somewhere there is a girl who tries to understa...
VERONICA ROTH
Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into pl...
VERONICA ROTH
Who cares about pretty? I'm going for noticeable.
VERONICA ROTH
Moths," repeats Will. "You're afraid of moths?"

"Not just a cloud of moths," she says, "...
VERONICA ROTH
Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
VERONICA ROTH
I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless.
I...
VERONICA ROTH
It must require bravery to be honest all the time.
VERONICA ROTH
Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.
VERONICA ROTH
You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you're small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you'...
VERONICA ROTH
I am selfish. I am brave.
VERONICA ROTH
Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
VERONICA ROTH
Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.'

'Well,' he says, 'I would onl...
VERONICA ROTH
I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.
VERONICA ROTH
Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in ...
VERONICA ROTH
I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.
VERONICA ROTH
The opinions of others cannot damage you.
VERONICA ROTH
It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
VERONICA ROTH
Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that dama...
VERONICA ROTH
She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recogniz...
VERONICA ROTH
The wish fulfillment of growing younger is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be. You have n...
ERIC ROTH