The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. — John Green Copy Share Image
Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot. — John Green Copy Share Image
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love… — John Green Copy Share Image
I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I… — John Green Copy Share Image
There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to… — John Green Copy Share Image
Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like… — John Green Copy Share Image
Like everyone, I'm saddened and horrified by this. All I'll say is that I'm personally trying to pay more attention to the… — John Green Copy Share Image
The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who… — John Green Copy Share Image
The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the… — John Green Copy Share Image
The beautiful thing about driving was that it stole just enough of his attention - car parked on the side, maybe a… — John Green Copy Share Image
Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there… — John Green Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share
She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." -… — John Green Copy Share
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea… — John Green Copy Share
“Traffic's not too bad on Sheridan, and I'm cornering the car like it's the Indy 500, and we're listening to my favorite NMH song,… — John Green Copy Share
So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I… — John Green Copy Share
“said to him quietly, as if I couldn’t hear or something. Dad was about to respond but I interrupted.” — John Green Copy Share
“He was hot. A nonhotboy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a… — John Green Copy Share
I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually. — John Green Copy Share
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it… — John Green Copy Share
