“Your book has a way of telling me what I'm feeling before I even feel it” — John Green Copy Share Image
This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library. — 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
“The Rough Guide to Nepal; The Great Sights of Canada; America by Car; Fodor's Guide to the Bahamas; Let's go Bhutan.” — John Green Copy Share Image
When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us. — John Green Copy Share Image
I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books. — John Green Copy Share Image
“going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“if half the cells inside of you are not you, doesn't that challenge the whole notion of me as a singular pronoun,… — John Green Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What… — John Green Copy Share Image
Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they… — John Green Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate. — John Green Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I never wish I could go back and write more, no. I spent a long, long time trying to write the book… — 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
Have you really read all those books in your room?” Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em.… — John Green Copy Share Image
When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come… — John Green Copy Share Image
“One of the reasons that metaphor and symbolism are important in books is because they are also important to life. Like, for… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Have you really read all those books in your room?" She laughed, "Oh God no. I've maybe read a third of 'em.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You are not a grenade, not to us. Thinking about you dying makes us sad, Hazel, but you are not a grenade.… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You shall no longer take things at second or third hand… nor look through the eyes of the dead… nor feed on… — John Green Copy Share Image
“We have a bad habit of seeing books as sort of cheaply made movies where the words do nothing but create visual… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The other attack going viral on tumblr at the moment is that I write novels about broken people who need saving, and… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think... — John Green Copy Share Image
“At times, quotes from the books talk more about our lives than on the lives of the characters.” — John Green Copy Share Image
Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start. — John Green Copy Share Image
“Every book title becomes infinitely better if 'in your pants' or 'from your pants' is added to the title.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“I am going to read this terrible book with the boring title that does not contain stormtroopers,” — 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
