All John Green Quotes
- 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
- Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's… Act
- Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me out of my… Bees
- One of the pitfalls about writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise-beyond-their-years creatures or… Anyone
- What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees into paper or… Agents
- 'Do you know,' he asked in a delicious accent, 'what Dom Pérignon said after inventing champagne?' 'No?' I said. 'He called out to his fellow… Accent
- She was not an adventure, she was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl. Adventure
- Does my eye look okay to you? Doe
- That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt. Bestfriends
- Grateful to be a little boat, full of water, still floating. Boat
- I was a fairly shy person - not the hand raising type. Fairly