The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor… — John Green Copy Share Image
I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving. — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that… — 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 hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I… — John Green Copy Share Image
Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they… — John Green Copy Share Image
When you’re as charming and physically attractive as myself, it’s easy enough to win over people you meet. But getting strangers to… — John Green Copy Share Image
Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But… — John Green Copy Share Image
The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the… — John Green Copy Share Image
Everybody was so kind. Strong, too. In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life.” “Quick, give me… — John Green Copy Share Image
So here's my advice: Study broadly and without fear. Learn a language if you can, because that will make your life more… — John Green Copy Share Image
Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most… — John Green Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them. — John Green Copy Share Image
…because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it.… — John Green Copy Share Image
It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.' 'Right, it's primarily his hotness,' I said. 'It can… — John Green Copy Share Image
All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without… — 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
I did some research on this a couple years ago," Augustus continued. "I was wondering if everybody could be remembered. Like, if… — 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
It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently… — John Green Copy Share Image
Since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only… — John Green Copy Share Image
Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in 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
