Dead people can be our heroes because they can't disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.
Veronica RothWhen 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.
Veronica Roth