Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal. — 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
I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only… — 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
[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use… — 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
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head. — John Green Copy Share Image
“That's the pleasure and challenge of reading great novels; you get to see yourself as others see you and you get to… — John Green Copy Share Image
Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His dad asked. "Yup," Colin said. He… — John Green Copy Share Image
If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.” “So you’re into it.” “Withholding judgment!… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I've maybe read a third of 'em. But I'm going to read them all. I call it my Life's Library. Every summer… — John Green Copy Share Image
“She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The reading quieted his brain a little. Without Katherine and without the Theorem and without his hopes of mattering, he had very… — 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
In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it's printed on, but the thousands of hours of work… — 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
“She laughed. "Oh God no. I've maybe read a third of 'em. But I'm going to read them all. I call it… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Have you really read all those books in your room?" She laughed, "Oh God no. I've maybe read a third of 'em.… — John Green Copy Share Image
Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Life is a lot like pizza… But in fact, Hank, the fundamental thing that all critical reading does is reveal to us… — John Green Copy Share Image
I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking! — John Green Copy Share Image
Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that. — John Green Copy Share Image
“He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words… — John Green Copy Share Image
“But there was so much todo: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I'll have more time for reading… — John Green Copy Share Image
“going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.” — John Green Copy Share Image
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love… — 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
I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a… — John Green Copy Share Image
Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You… — John Green Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world… — John Green Copy Share Image
Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re… — John Green Copy Share Image
All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they… — John Green Copy Share Image
In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute— how dismissive it is, how it’s the equivalent of calling… — John Green Copy Share Image
Reading it the night before, I'd wondered if it would be like that for me-if in one moment, I would finally understand… — 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
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
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
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