We do an epically bad job of acknowledging one another's work and checking our sources. — John Green Copy Share Image
I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time job Learning How to… — John Green Copy Share Image
The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves — John Green Copy Share Image
The way we still essentializ, we're constantly essentializing people as merely poor, or merely other, and in the end you can't have… — John Green Copy Share Image
One of the jobs of a writer is to add nuance and ambiguity to that straight line that people often draw 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
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
I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum,… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm at the eye doctor. I'm always at the eye doctor. It's like this is my profession. I am no longer a… — John Green Copy Share Image
There are many more jobs out there than you have ever heard of. Your dream job might not yet exist. If you… — John Green Copy Share Image
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
The prospect of a world that contains neither humans nor Z's is not so terrifying. Nature will take its world back. Animals… — John Green Copy Share Image
And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so… — John Green Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat… — John Green Copy Share Image
Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there… — 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
