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 Copy Share Image
You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I want you to feel empowered to explore those questions without worrying that there is some secret answer somewhere resting with the… — 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
“I’m on a side of a road somewhere, stuck in the middle of a very deep hole, with no way of getting… — 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
“It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in… — John Green Copy Share Image
This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library. — John Green Copy Share Image
“I’m a grenade,” I said again. “I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with… — John Green Copy Share Image
“He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words… — 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
“if half the cells inside of you are not you, doesn't that challenge the whole notion of me as a singular pronoun,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start. — John Green Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I'll write you an epilogue, I will, I will. Better than any shit that drunk could write. His brain is Swiss cheese.… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a… — 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
“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
How about I call you when I finish this?” “But you don’t even have my phone number,” he said. “I strongly suspect… — John Green Copy Share Image
“We shove the dirt over the book, tamping down the disturbed soil. The grass will grow back soon enough. It will be… — 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
