Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal. — John Green Copy Share Image
I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an… — John Green Copy Share Image
“graffiti in the stall read: CALL DANA FOR BLOW. Colin wondered whether Dana provided fellatio or cocaine,” — 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
“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
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
Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end… — John Green Copy Share Image
Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison,… — 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
“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
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
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'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
“One of the reasons that metaphor and symbolism are important in books is because they are also important to life. Like, for… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Have you really read all those books in your room?" She laughed, "Oh God no. I've maybe read a third of 'em.… — 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
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
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
I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be… — 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 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
“We have a bad habit of seeing books as sort of cheaply made movies where the words do nothing but create visual… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Life is a lot like pizza… But in fact, Hank, the fundamental thing that all critical reading does is reveal to us… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You shall no longer take things at second or third hand… nor look through the eyes of the dead… nor feed on… — 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
As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text. — 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
You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller. — 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
“I am going to read this terrible book with the boring title that does not contain stormtroopers,” — 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
