I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be… — John Green Copy Share Image
“There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each… — John Green Copy Share Image
That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people. — John Green Copy Share Image
But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were,… — 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
Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just… — John Green Copy Share Image
I love making YouTube videos. I love Tumblr, I love Twitter. I love talking with people I find interesting about stuff I… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Which meant there was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also… — John Green Copy Share Image
According to Maslow, I was stuck on the second level of the pyramid, unable to feel secure in my health and therefore… — John Green Copy Share Image
When I think about [characters], I like to think of them in their relationships to each other. In the same way, I… — John Green Copy Share Image
Always' was a promise! How can you just break the promise?" "Sometimes people don't always understand the promises they're making when they… — John Green Copy Share Image
The way we still essentializ, we're constantly essentializing people as merely poor, or merely other, and in the end you can't have… — John Green Copy Share Image
One of the pitfalls about writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these… — John Green Copy Share Image
Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together." What?" Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud." That's who you really… — John Green Copy Share Image
People thought he was a glutton for punishment, that he liked getting dumped. But it wasn't like that. He could just never… — John Green Copy Share Image
Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder… — John Green Copy Share Image
People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and… — John Green Copy Share Image
Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust. — John Green Copy Share Image
One of the jobs of a writer is to add nuance and ambiguity to that straight line that people often draw to… — John Green Copy Share Image
When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take… — John Green Copy Share Image
The idea is that for ten minutes, we forget that we have feelings. And we forget about protecting ourselves or other people… — John Green Copy Share Image
As far as all of our identities are dependent on how other people imagine us we are all making ourselves and each… — John Green Copy Share Image
It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that… — John Green Copy Share Image
The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply… — John Green Copy Share Image
I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview… — John Green Copy Share Image
It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently… — John Green Copy Share Image
In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it's printed on, but the thousands of hours of work… — John Green Copy Share Image
Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of reading is not to understand… — John Green Copy Share Image
Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us… — John Green Copy Share Image
Being a person, I had come to realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people do not… — John Green Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to… — John Green Copy Share Image
Even if it’s a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me.… — John Green Copy Share Image
I have a great affection for people who are intellectually engaged with the world, and who don't treat everything superficially. And I… — John Green Copy Share Image
It's like people believe all you need to do is like the same bands in order to be soulmates. Or book. Oh… — John Green Copy Share Image
Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between… — John Green Copy Share Image
All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they… — 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
He took a bite, swallowed. "God. If asparagus tasted like that all the time, I'd be vegetarian, too." Some people in a… — 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
![“When I think about [characters], I like to think of them in their relationships to each other. In the same way, I think that's how humans are ultimately defined. We are our relationships to one another. And a lot of what's interesting about us happens in the context of other people.” quote by John Green](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4d0/john-green-12_character_when-i-think-about-characters-i-like-to_1157553.jpg)
