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
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
“This is what I love about novels, both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss, to be with you” — 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
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
“I do think the idea of living your life to the fullest is a little flawed. Like, why is jumping out of… — 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
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
I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books. — John Green Copy Share Image
“Of course, you pretend to be the author. You have to. You think, I now choose to go to lunch, when that… — John Green Copy Share Image
There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to… — John Green Copy Share Image
...I will continue to underscore that I don't think authorial intent is all that important to a reading experience, and I certainly… — John Green Copy Share Image
“But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to… — John Green Copy Share Image
“going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“It’s all fragile and fleeting, dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs… — John Green Copy Share Image
And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Human existence is temporary and all the knowledge of the universe we acquire will in time be forgotten because there will be… — 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 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
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
