Book Quotes by John Green

Afraid to love

— John Green

“who wrote book 1st”

— John Green

“I just want to stay away from people and read books.”

— John Green

When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.

— John Green

“Authors do not own books, readers do”

— John Green

Books are like tweets, except longer.

— John Green

“I don't have a favorite book. I have hundreds.”

— John Green

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

— John Green

Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.

— John Green

I don't have a favourite book, I have hundreds.

— John Green

“Great books help you understand, and they help you to feel understood.”

— John Green

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

— John Green

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

— John Green

“Your book has a way of telling me what I'm feeling before I even feel it”

— John Green

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

— John Green

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

— John Green

“If people were rain i was drizzle and she was a hurrican.”

— John Green

When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us.

— John Green

That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough…

— John Green

“Books are a weird collaboration between author and reader: You trust me to tell a good story, and I trust you to…

— John Green

It must be some book," she said as she knelt down next to the bed..."Did that boy give it to you?" She…

— John Green

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a…

— John Green

How about I call you when I finish this?” “But you don’t even have my phone number,” he said. “I strongly suspect…

— John Green

Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end…

— John Green

And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind…

— John Green

“He always had books. Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them…

— John Green

Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into waist-high stacks of books everywhere, piled haphazardly against the walls. If just one…

— John Green

Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see…

— John Green

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world…

— John Green

I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's…

— John Green

The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right…

— John Green

Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually…

— John Green

“I walked to his bedside table next. Infinite Mayhem. the ninth sequel to The Prince of Dawn, lay atop the table next…

— John Green

“I never wish I could go back and write more, no. I spent a long, long time trying to write the book…

— John Green

Books belong to their readers.

— John Green

I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.

— John Green

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

— John Green

I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think...

— John Green

“At times, quotes from the books talk more about our lives than on the lives of the characters.”

— John Green

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

— John Green