In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit… — John Green Copy Share Image
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect. — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team. — 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
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
One of the things I like about making stuff in the age of the Internet, is that people make stuff in response… — 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
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
“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
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 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
“I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers where you just repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation' and… — 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
The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually… — 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
“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
“And of course, if you ever do decide to write anything else, even if you don’t want to publish it, I’d love… — 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
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
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
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
Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think… — 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
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
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
“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
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
“said to him quietly, as if I couldn’t hear or something. Dad was about to respond but I interrupted.” — John Green Copy Share
“He was hot. A nonhotboy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a… — John Green Copy Share
I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually. — John Green Copy Share
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it… — John Green Copy Share
![“Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it." [ Thoughts from Places: The Tour , Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]” quote by John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8f/john-green-12_alone_writing-is-something-you-do-alone-its-a_1766798.jpg)
![“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/i/4d0/john-green-12_character_when-i-think-about-characters-i-like-to_1157553.jpg)
