“I liked reading biographies of writers, even if (as was the case with Monsieur Rabelais)I'd never read any of their actual writing.… — 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
Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Love"I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus,"I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could… — John Green Copy Share Image
Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between… — John Green Copy Share Image
I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid… — 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
Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me… — John Green Copy Share Image
In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie… — John Green Copy Share Image
“For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.” — John Green Copy Share Image
We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't… — John Green Copy Share Image
Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the… — 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
