Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye… — 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
Okay, maybe I'm not such a shitty writer. But I can't pull my ideas together, Van Houten. My thoughts are stars I… — 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
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
But I had to kill you, because the only other possible ending was us doing it, which I wasn't really emotionally ready… — 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
“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and… — John Green Copy Share Image
If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I liked reading biographies of writers, even if (as was the case with Monsieur Rabelais)I'd never read any of their actual writing.… — 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
What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees… — 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
Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I never wish I could go back and write more, no. I spent a long, long time trying to write the book… — John Green Copy Share Image
I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid… — John Green Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to… — John Green Copy Share Image
When I think about [characters], I like to think of them in their relationships to each other. In the same way, I… — John Green Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to… — John Green Copy Share Image
One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these… — 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
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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![“When I think about [characters], I like to think of them in their relationships to each other. In the same way, I think that's how humans are ultimately defined. We are our relationships to one another. And a lot of what's interesting about us happens in the context of other people.” quote by John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4d0/john-green-12_character_when-i-think-about-characters-i-like-to_1157553.jpg)
