When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us. — John Green Copy Share Image
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head. — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think... — John Green Copy Share Image
That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Books are a weird collaboration between author and reader: You trust me to tell a good story, and I trust you to… — 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
“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
“Your party kicked so much ass!Even though you suck so much! It's like, instead of blood, your heart pumps liquid suck! But… — 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
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
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
Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I never wish I could go back and write more, no. I spent a long, long time trying to write the book… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I walked to his bedside table next. Infinite Mayhem. the ninth sequel to The Prince of Dawn, lay atop the table next… — John Green Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see… — 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
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 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
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
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
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
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 hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's… — John Green Copy Share Image
The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right… — John Green Copy Share Image
Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because… — John Green Copy Share Image
I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books a supposed to be likable. Books are not in the… — 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
Cause I'm just - I want to go to Amsterdam, and I want him to tell me what happens after the book… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You don’t even know me,” I said. I grabbed the book from the center console. “How about I call you when I… — John Green Copy Share Image
I change my keyboard between every book. I usually shop around. I'm very passionate about the physical feel of pressing the keys.… — 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
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
I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the… — John Green Copy Share Image
All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without… — John Green Copy Share Image
Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re… — John Green Copy Share Image
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent… — 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
