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
“Van Houten, I'm a good person but a shitty writer. you're a shitty person but a good writer.” — 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
“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
I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team. — 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
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
And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius. — 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
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
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 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
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
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
I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I've maybe read a third of 'em. But I'm going to read them all. I call it my Life's Library. Every summer… — John Green Copy Share Image
“And of course, if you ever do decide to write anything else, even if you don’t want to publish it, I’d love… — 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
“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
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
Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye… — John Green Copy Share Image
“if you ever do decide to write anything else, even if you don’t want to publish it, I’d love to read it.… — John Green Copy Share Image
That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does… — John Green Copy Share Image
They belong to their readers now, which is a great thing–because the books are more powerful in the hands of my readers… — John Green Copy Share Image
You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever. — John Green Copy Share Image
“there are books which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think that most of us [writers] would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich, we'd… — 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
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
“She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in… — 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
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
“The reading quieted his brain a little. Without Katherine and without the Theorem and without his hopes of mattering, he had very… — 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
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
“Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to… — 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
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
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
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