“This is what I love about novels, both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss, to be with you” — John Green Copy Share Image
“When we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so… — John Green Copy Share Image
“graffiti in the stall read: CALL DANA FOR BLOW. Colin wondered whether Dana provided fellatio or cocaine,” — John Green Copy Share Image
All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby. — John Green Copy Share Image
As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text. — John Green Copy Share Image
I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my… — John Green Copy Share Image
You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller. — John Green Copy Share Image
Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison,… — John Green Copy Share Image
You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of… — John Green Copy Share Image
And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind… — John Green Copy Share Image
The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor… — John Green Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I liked reading biographies of writers, even if (as was the case with Monsieur Rabelais)I'd never read any of their actual writing.… — John Green Copy Share Image
How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the… — John Green Copy Share Image
“We shove the dirt over the book, tamping down the disturbed soil. The grass will grow back soon enough. It will be… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that… — John Green Copy Share Image
But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in… — John Green Copy Share Image
I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I'll write you an epilogue, I will, I will. Better than any shit that drunk could write. His brain is Swiss cheese.… — John Green Copy Share Image
Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His dad asked. "Yup," Colin said. He… — 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
“dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and… — John Green Copy Share Image
You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads… — John Green Copy Share Image
We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must… — John Green Copy Share Image
This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with… — John Green Copy Share Image
If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was… — John Green Copy Share Image
“And then there are books, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection… — John Green Copy Share Image
What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees… — John Green Copy Share Image
That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of… — John Green Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps… — 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
Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we… — John Green Copy Share Image
“It must be some book," she said as she knelt down next to the bed and unscrewed me from my large, rectangular… — John Green Copy Share Image
In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit… — John Green Copy Share Image
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the… — John Green Copy Share Image
I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read… — John Green Copy Share Image
Throughout the book, she refers to herself as "the side effect," which is just totally correct. Cancer kids are essentially side effects… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I brought you a snack," Takumi said, dropping an oatmeal cream pie onto my book. "Very nutritious," I smiled. "You've got your… — John Green Copy Share Image
“That's the pleasure and challenge of reading great novels; you get to see yourself as others see you and you get to… — 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
