Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the… — 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 wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my… — John Green Copy Share Image
Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel. — John Green Copy Share Image
Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting. — John Green Copy Share Image
This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with… — John Green Copy Share Image
I never really understood that massive collaboration involving hundreds of people is what makes movies possible, and it's also why I would… — 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
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
I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that… — John Green Copy Share Image
Nothing (at least that can be done by humans) immortalizes anyone. The Fault in Our Stars will hopefully have a long and… — 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