My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, do...
VICTORIA AVEYARD I start out giving characters archetypes and parameters. Once I know the basics and have a rudimenta...
VICTORIA AVEYARD I'm a child of the Disney Renaissance, so the new classics are near and dear. I suppose this is ...
VICTORIA AVEYARD World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in. I don'...
VICTORIA AVEYARD I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just ...
VICTORIA AVEYARD I have sort of weaned myself off of reading my own reviews, which is a constant struggle.
VICTORIA AVEYARD I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of maki...
VICTORIA AVEYARD I wrote a lot of 'Red Queen' wrapped in a blanket, cramped up while watching the snow come d...
VICTORIA AVEYARD Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he...
VICTORIA AVEYARD I don't necessarily set out to teach or say anything in particular in my writing. Morals and the...
VICTORIA AVEYARD My number one job at the end of the day is to entertain.
VICTORIA AVEYARD I'm a visual writer, so it's fitting that my first brush with 'Red Queen' was an ima...
VICTORIA AVEYARD 'Glass Sword' has several set piece scenes that I plotted out or visualized before I wrote t...
VICTORIA AVEYARD All my favorite books and movies are franchises like 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rin...
VICTORIA AVEYARD I'm really enamored with the idea of a reformed society, and I've always been fascinated wit...
VICTORIA AVEYARD My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's...
VICTORIA AVEYARD I'm a TV junkie, so it's hard to choose just one. Currently I'm a slave to 'Black Sa...
VICTORIA AVEYARD My favorite part about Mare Barrow is her almost selfish survival instinct, as well as her increasin...
VICTORIA AVEYARD I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
VICTORIA AVEYARD Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time......
VICTORIA AVEYARD I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
VICTORIA AVEYARD Action set pieces are my absolute favorite thing to write. I'm pretty much always in the mood to...
VICTORIA AVEYARD 'Jurassic Park' and 'Star Wars' shoved me into loving sci-fi and film in general whe...
VICTORIA AVEYARD So far, the biggest regret I have in regards to the world of 'Red Queen' is that I didn'...
VICTORIA AVEYARD This was the shadow controlling the flame.
VICTORIA AVEYARD To look powerful is to be powerful.
VICTORIA AVEYARD In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'l...
VICTORIA AVEYARD I've been working through Maurice Druon's 'Accursed Kings' series. They come highly ...
VICTORIA AVEYARD Don’t lie to a liar.
VICTORIA AVEYARD The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.
VICTORIA AVEYARD Anyone can betray anyone.
VICTORIA AVEYARD I force myself to outline, but not too closely, so I guess I plot by the seat of my pants? My natura...
VICTORIA AVEYARD The thing with heat is, no matter how cold you are, no matter how much you need warmth, it always, e...
VICTORIA AVEYARD And you're late."
"I prefer chronologically challenged.
VICTORIA AVEYARD If only no one had to fight at all." He shakes his head.
"It does no good to dream.
VICTORIA AVEYARD Red in the head, Silver in the heart
VICTORIA AVEYARD It's our nature. We destroy. It's the constant of our kind. No matter the color of blood, man will a...
VICTORIA AVEYARD I'm an accident. I'm a lie. And my life depends on maintaining the illusion.
VICTORIA AVEYARD A lie will raise me up, and one day another lie will bring me down.
VICTORIA AVEYARD Words can lie. See beyond them.
VICTORIA AVEYARD Rise, red as the dawn.
VICTORIA AVEYARD Their Silver war is being paid for in Red blood.
VICTORIA AVEYARD Kneel or bleed.
VICTORIA AVEYARD For their lives, for their children's lives, they will give up what little freedom they had left.
VICTORIA AVEYARD Red blood is just so hard to clean up"
"You would know" I snap remembering Shade. "Because no ...
VICTORIA AVEYARD The sparks are gone, replaced by fierce, ugly tears that track down my face. Thunder rumbles somewhe...
VICTORIA AVEYARD So you choose him?'
'Cal betrayed me, and I betrayed him. And you betrayed us both, in a thousa...
VICTORIA AVEYARD I must freeze my heart to the one person who insists on setting it ablaze. Winding
VICTORIA AVEYARD We seem weak because we want to.
VICTORIA AVEYARD No one is born evil, just like no one is born alone. They become that way, through choice and circum...
VICTORIA AVEYARD We’ve taken everything from her, brother,” Maven murmurs, drawing close. “Surely we can give h...
VICTORIA AVEYARD I fear being alone more than anything else. So why do I do this? Why do I push away the people I lov...
VICTORIA AVEYARD I see a world on the edge of a blade. Without balance, it will fall.
VICTORIA AVEYARD They trained me for this. It's their own fault. They helped make their own doom.
VICTORIA AVEYARD Mare?"
"Are you afraid, Maven?"
"I am. I'm afraid of failing. I'm afraid of letting this o...
VICTORIA AVEYARD You better hide that heart of yours, Lady Titanos. It won't lead you anywhere you want to go.
VICTORIA AVEYARD I can’t believe I didn’t see him for what he was from the beginning: a wolf in sheep’s clothin...
VICTORIA AVEYARD Are you going to babysit me every day or just until I learn my way around?"
"What do you think?...
VICTORIA AVEYARD Many things led to this day, for all of us. A forgotten son, a vengeful mother, a brother with a lon...
VICTORIA AVEYARD His lips are on mine, hard and warm and pressing. The touch is electrifying, but not like I'm used t...
VICTORIA AVEYARD There are worse lives to live. Don't feel sorry for me.
VICTORIA AVEYARD I'll make the other scream for you, Mare, every last one. Not just your parents. Not just your sibli...
VICTORIA AVEYARD I'm a Red girl in a sea of Silvers and I can't afford to feel sorry for anyone, least of all the son...
VICTORIA AVEYARD I will never make the mistake of loving you ever again."
"So you choose him?"
That's all t...
VICTORIA AVEYARD There's nothing wrong with being different.
VICTORIA AVEYARD What I need and what I want are two very different things.
VICTORIA AVEYARD You should know the difference between secrets and lies.
VICTORIA AVEYARD The gods rule us still. They have come down from the stars. And they are no longer kind.
VICTORIA AVEYARD If you know someone's fear, you know them.
VICTORIA AVEYARD Flame and shadow. One cannot exist without the other.
VICTORIA AVEYARD I told you to hide your heart once. You should have listened.
VICTORIA AVEYARD Every inch of my writing career has been influenced by my screenwriting education. I was lucky enoug...
VICTORIA AVEYARD As much as I want to pull away, I just can't do it. Cal is a cliff, and I throw myself over the edge...
VICTORIA AVEYARD We are silver houses of noble and ancient blood, allied with rebels, criminals, servants and thieves...
VICTORIA AVEYARD She was happy, yes, in her own way, as best as she knew.
But there’s a difference between a s...
VICTORIA AVEYARD As you enter, you pray to leave. As you leave, you pray to never return.
VICTORIA AVEYARD There are pieces of me, small pieces, still in love with a fiction.
VICTORIA AVEYARD The person she loved is dead, stolen by someone else. Mine chose to walk away. Chose everything I ha...
VICTORIA AVEYARD Through it all, I stare at the boy on the throne. He maintains his mask. Jaw clenched, lips pressed ...
VICTORIA AVEYARD Not a god’s chosen, but a god’s cursed. That’s what we all are.
VICTORIA AVEYARD There are pieces of me, small pieces, still in love with a fiction. A ghost living inside a living b...
VICTORIA AVEYARD I've been broken too many times to break again.
VICTORIA AVEYARD The door swings inward as the first soldier rounds the corner, but my thoughts are only of Cal. It s...
VICTORIA AVEYARD One dark night I spilled my secrets to him, on a road thick with summer heat. I was the girl who tri...
VICTORIA AVEYARD Le parole possono mentire. Bisogna saper guardare oltre.
VICTORIA AVEYARD Mare of the Stilts died the day she fell onto a lightning shield. Mareena, the lost Silver princess,...
VICTORIA AVEYARD histories of the world before our own. That was a world of empires, of corruption, of war-and more f...
VICTORIA AVEYARD You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can't b...
VICTORIA AVEYARD If I am a sword, I am a sword made of glass, and I feel myself beginning to shatter.
VICTORIA AVEYARD Fire and lightning raised Maven up, and fire and lightning will bring him down.
VICTORIA AVEYARD I am the king and you could've been my Red Queen.
VICTORIA AVEYARD They have their own version of truth, and that's the only one people will hear.
VICTORIA AVEYARD A good person always see the positive sites of other people
VICTORIA Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
VICTORIA ABRIL Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be ...
VICTORIA WOODHULL By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
VICTORIA WOODHULL I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered...
VICTORIA WOODHULL To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
VICTORIA WOODHULL If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled t...
VICTORIA WOODHULL Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men un...
VICTORIA WOODHULL My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntaril...
VICTORIA WOODHULL Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
VICTORIA WOODHULL For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
VICTORIA WOODHULL When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was br...
VICTORIA WOODHULL I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
VICTORIA WOODHULL I endeavor to make the most of everything.
VICTORIA WOODHULL I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and...
VICTORIA WOODHULL The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government b...
VICTORIA WOODHULL I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of whic...
VICTORIA WOODHULL I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
VICTORIA WOODHULL While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
VICTORIA WOODHULL If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursu...
VICTORIA WOODHULL It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, ...
VICTORIA WOODHULL I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.
VICTORIA WOODHULL My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
VICTORIA WOODHULL I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to lo...
VICTORIA WOODHULL Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable gueril...
VICTORIA WOODHULL Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
VICTORIA WOODHULL I go to the airport and I've had everything taken away from me because of the terrorists. People...
VICTORIA TOENSING Any perjury case is a tough case. You just don't go on 'he said-she said.' You have to f...
VICTORIA TOENSING Maybe self-publishing is going to be an extra step added to publishing. Maybe what's going to ha...
VICTORIA STRAUSS Is it ever worthwhile to buy a review? Not in my opinion. With independent paid review services, qua...
VICTORIA STRAUSS When I was submitting my first novel, I had no idea that publishing scams existed. I never encounter...
VICTORIA STRAUSS It can be hard to say if someone has a deliberate intent to defraud or if they are just really, real...
VICTORIA STRAUSS There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who dive...
VICTORIA STRAUSS If you're going to self - publish, you need to know why you're doing it, what you want to ac...
VICTORIA STRAUSS Every famous writer was once an unknown writer. If publishers never published new writers, they woul...
VICTORIA STRAUSS Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a busi...
VICTORIA STRAUSS Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.
VICTORIA STRAUSS There's a difference between publicity and marketing. A lot of writers don't realize how muc...
VICTORIA STRAUSS 'Pay it forward' has become a hackneyed concept, but I truly believe in it, and it gives me ...
VICTORIA STRAUSS The idea of Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Dracula, all I could think of was, why haven't they done thi...
VICTORIA SMURFIT I think 'Trial & Retribution' as a brand can go on forever. Its joy is that it has, to a...
VICTORIA SMURFIT As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, th...
VICTORIA SMURFIT If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.
VICTORIA SMURFIT Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your dau...
VICTORIA SECUNDA I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
VICTORIA PRATT People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be o...
VICTORIA PRATT I've been really fortunate to go from series to series to series.
VICTORIA PRATT I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.
VICTORIA PRATT I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
VICTORIA PRATT I've been working some really long hours for the last five or six years. Anybody who works on se...
VICTORIA PRATT When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.
VICTORIA PRATT Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me j...
VICTORIA PRATT There are a lot of great actresses out there. You learn to appreciate each one for what they offer.
VICTORIA PRATT When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.
VICTORIA PRATT I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, y...
VICTORIA PRATT Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together whe...
VICTORIA PRATT The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character,...
VICTORIA PRATT It's part of the job to compensate for outfit.
VICTORIA PRATT I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
VICTORIA PRATT It's all about exploring the more unpredictable aspects in the character, not just fighting peop...
VICTORIA PRATT I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
VICTORIA PRATT In terms of being a role model, I didn't start out to be one. I don't go to work every day w...
VICTORIA PRATT We don't move on in the stunt unless it looks like a hit. So when I see it on TV, I'm genera...
VICTORIA PRATT That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don&#...
VICTORIA PRATT I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? ...
VICTORIA PRATT I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to a...
VICTORIA PRATT Most women don't play like guys do: they don't wrestle, fight, get into brawls. They don'...
VICTORIA PRATT In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows ...
VICTORIA PRATT You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need t...
VICTORIA PRATT I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
VICTORIA PRATT You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and impro...
VICTORIA PENDLETON I beat myself up the whole time because I'm striving for something I'll basically never achi...
VICTORIA PENDLETON I was constantly being told I shouldn't talk so much about how I was feeling. They seemed to thi...
VICTORIA PENDLETON I think just drinking juice is too extreme for a diet. Your body needs more than juice, so I think i...
VICTORIA PENDLETON My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
VICTORIA PENDLETON To be honest, after you've crossed the line at the Olympic Games, it is bedlam for the next, abo...
VICTORIA PENDLETON People say, 'Wow, you've achieved it all this year: two world championship wins and an Olymp...
VICTORIA PENDLETON Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
VICTORIA PENDLETON You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't n...
VICTORIA PENDLETON I just want to prove that I am really good at something. And I haven't quite done that yet - at ...
VICTORIA PENDLETON I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around.
VICTORIA PENDLETON Being a track sprinter, when it's all about a thousandth of a second, there is no escaping the n...
VICTORIA PENDLETON As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I a...
VICTORIA PENDLETON I think I might become a pescatarian. I love sushi, couldn't give it up.
VICTORIA PENDLETON The sprint is sometimes like a toss of a coin. Sometimes it's heads, and sometimes it's tail...
VICTORIA PENDLETON In tennis, you can have a bad set and still win. The part of track cycling that is difficult to find...
VICTORIA PENDLETON Winning is no longer just the outcome. It's part of the process.
VICTORIA PENDLETON I worried I was a boyish shape. I always thought I might grow some, but it never happened.
VICTORIA PENDLETON People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of ...
VICTORIA PENDLETON I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just ...
VICTORIA PENDLETON Food plays a large part in our weekend, but on a Friday evening, I'll make us something simple f...
VICTORIA PENDLETON Cycling as a whole is totally underestimated.
VICTORIA PENDLETON I genuinely enjoy the process of making colourful, delicious food. But I do allow myself an occasion...
VICTORIA PENDLETON Enjoy your food, enjoy your life.
VICTORIA MORAN Every year when I put away my winter clothes and get out my summer clothes, they fit. And I haven...
VICTORIA MORAN I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing ...
VICTORIA MORAN I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need peopl...
VICTORIA MORAN Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
VICTORIA MORAN By itself, tofu is like wet foam rubber, but you'd no more eat it by itself and expect fine dini...
VICTORIA MORAN The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlik...
VICTORIA MORAN You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.
VICTORIA MORAN Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I re...
VICTORIA MORAN I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have t...
VICTORIA MORAN I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spi...
VICTORIA MORAN My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.
VICTORIA MORAN There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. N...
VICTORIA MORAN As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sp...
VICTORIA MORAN Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We're all going to get sick and die. But to know you&...
VICTORIA MORAN