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
The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I wanted to stop peeing but couldn't, of course. Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard… — John Green Copy Share Image
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
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
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
“But I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell. Of course,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I'm a grenade. I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because… — 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 liked reading biographies of writers, even if (as was the case with Monsieur Rabelais)I'd never read any of their actual writing.… — John Green Copy Share Image
As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text. — John Green Copy Share Image
If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was… — John Green Copy Share Image
“When we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so… — 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
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
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 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
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
I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The other attack going viral on tumblr at the moment is that I write novels about broken people who need saving, and… — 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
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“said to him quietly, as if I couldn’t hear or something. Dad was about to respond but I interrupted.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls. — John Green Copy Share Image
