Writer Quotes by John Green

“Authors do not own books, readers do”

— John Green

Books belong to their readers.

— John Green

“who wrote book 1st”

— John Green

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

— John Green

“the fault in our stars is the best book and the movie too”

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— 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

Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.

— John Green

“But it's not a cancer book, because cancer books suck.”

— 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

“This is what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories.”

— John Green

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

— 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

Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the…

— 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

This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories.

— 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

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only…

— John Green

Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Childrens librarians are…

— John Green

Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are…

— 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

Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to…

— John Green

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

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

“She laughed. "Oh God no. I've maybe read a third of 'em. But I'm going to read them all. I call it…

— 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

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

“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

“My favorite book, by a wide margin, was An Imperial Affliction, but I didn’t like to tell people about it. Sometimes, you…

— John Green

But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in…

— John Green

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

“Life is a lot like pizza… But in fact, Hank, the fundamental thing that all critical reading does is reveal to us…

— John Green

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

— John Green

“I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me.”

— John Green

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

— John Green

I don't really care how people read. I care if people read.

— John Green

Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.

— John Green