Communication Quotes by John Green

“I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen.”

— John Green

I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.

— John Green

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

— John Green

“listening quietly" was my general social strategy.”

— John Green

“In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt.”

— John Green

“Listening is a very rare skill, and in these noisy times, it is more and more valuable.”

— John Green

In the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.

— John Green

“I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest…

— John Green

The consequences of being un-cool feel so big that a lot of times you end of not finding ways to have open…

— John Green

And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may…

— John Green

If I could do it all over again," he said, his speech slow and vaguely mangled by his massive lower lip, "I'd…

— John Green

I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will…

— John Green

It was psychological trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood.

— John Green

“The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness.”

— John Green

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

“That was perfect, I thought: you listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and…

— John Green

“I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest…

— John Green

You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to…

— John Green

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

“Augustus was amazing, but he’d overdone everything at the picnic, right down to the sandwiches that were metaphorically resonant but tasted terrible…

— John Green

“The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness: “I want…

— John Green

Radar threw his books into his locker and shut it. Then the din of conversation around us quieted just a bit as…

— John Green

“I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words so they wouldn't sound dumb, and I hated…

— John Green

Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But…

— John Green

“In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. It felt like we were in…

— John Green

The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness: 'I want…

— John Green

I don't see a future where we're all taught by robots. The real life, physical experience of being in a classroom and…

— John Green

[My] interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is…

— John Green