Novel Quotes by John Green

13 Novel quotes by John Green

John Green’s knack for blending humor with earnestness shines through these thirteen lines. They give a quick sense of his perspective on what makes a novel resonate with readers of all ages.

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

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Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel.

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Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.

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This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with…

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I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my…

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I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic…

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But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in…

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I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that…

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I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character…

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When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come…

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Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the…

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I never really understood that massive collaboration involving hundreds of people is what makes movies possible, and it's also why I would…

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Nothing (at least that can be done by humans) immortalizes anyone. The Fault in Our Stars will hopefully have a long and…

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“No one ever says good-bye unless they want to see you again.”

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“Praise God for good nurses.”

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So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I…

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Nothing has ever looked like that ever in all of human history.

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“said to him quietly, as if I couldn’t hear or something. Dad was about to respond but I interrupted.”

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I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.

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“He was hot. A nonhotboy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a…

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I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually.

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Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it…

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