Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start. — John Green Copy Share Image
“At times, quotes from the books talk more about our lives than on the lives of the characters.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“The Rough Guide to Nepal; The Great Sights of Canada; America by Car; Fodor's Guide to the Bahamas; Let's go Bhutan.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books. — John Green Copy Share Image
When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us. — 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
I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think... — 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
“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
“That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What… — John Green Copy Share Image
It must be some book," she said as she knelt down next to the bed..."Did that boy give it to you?" She… — 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
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
“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
I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an… — 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
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
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
“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
“She laughed. "Oh God no. I've maybe read a third of 'em. But I'm going to read them all. I call it… — 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
“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
You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television… — 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
“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
“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
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
“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
I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic… — 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
...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
“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
Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of reading is not to understand… — John Green Copy Share Image
“That's the pleasure and challenge of reading great novels; you get to see yourself as others see you and you get to… — 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
“I brought you a snack," Takumi said, dropping an oatmeal cream pie onto my book. "Very nutritious," I smiled. "You've got your… — 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
As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a… — 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
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
