All John Green Quotes
- According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did not for a moment waiver in his… According
- I love being in cities with lots of other people, because I'm reminded that there are billions of people like me, and we are each… Billions
- One of the reasons that metaphor and symbolism are important in books is because they are also important to life. Like, for example say you're… Anyone
- "Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of… Add
- ...I will continue to underscore that I don't think authorial intent is all that important to a reading experience, and I certainly don't think the… All
- Okay, maybe I'm not such a shitty writer. But I can't pull my ideas together, Van Houten. My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into… Constellations
- Truth defies simplicity. Defies
- Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful. Beautiful
- In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie dream girl or… Always Running
- It is a good life, Hazel Grace. Good
- That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us… Allow
- You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone. Alone
- I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep... Just sleep together, in… Arms
- I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have,… Apprenticeship
- We're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them. Constantly
- [My] interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is totally undiagrammable...My interest… Actual
- [This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are… Choosing
- 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… Character
- Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye contact while telling… Alone
- Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid,… Activity