“In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt.” — John Green Copy Share Image
In the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to. — John Green Copy Share Image
“Listening is a very rare skill, and in these noisy times, it is more and more valuable.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books. — John Green Copy Share Image
It was psychological trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood. — John Green Copy Share Image
I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will… — 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
“The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness.” — John Green Copy Share Image
The consequences of being un-cool feel so big that a lot of times you end of not finding ways to have open… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest… — John Green Copy Share Image
If I could do it all over again," he said, his speech slow and vaguely mangled by his massive lower lip, "I'd… — John Green Copy Share Image
And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may… — John Green Copy Share Image
“In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. It felt like we were in… — John Green Copy Share Image
[My] interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is… — John Green Copy Share Image
I don't see a future where we're all taught by robots. The real life, physical experience of being in a classroom and… — John Green Copy Share Image
The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness: 'I want… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Augustus was amazing, but he’d overdone everything at the picnic, right down to the sandwiches that were metaphorically resonant but tasted terrible… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness: “I want… — John Green Copy Share Image
I don't think we should see the world of books as fundamentally separate from the world of the Internet. Yes, the Internet… — John Green Copy Share Image
“That was perfect, I thought: you listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and… — John Green Copy Share Image
Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest… — John Green Copy Share Image
You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words so they wouldn't sound dumb, and I hated… — John Green Copy Share Image
Radar threw his books into his locker and shut it. Then the din of conversation around us quieted just a bit as… — 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
![“[My] interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is totally undiagrammable...My interest is in trying to reflect the reality of experience-how we feel when we talk to each other, how we feel when we're engaging with questions…” quote by John Green](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1dd/john-green-12_communication_my-interest-as-a-writer-is-not-in-reflec_3172245.jpg)
