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Novel Quotes by John Green
- Nothing (at least that can be done by humans) immortalizes anyone. The Fault in Our Stars will hopefully have a long and wonderful life, but…
- This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you…
- I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.
- I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender…
- I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they…
- Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel.
- A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.
- Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that…
- But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous.…
- I never really understood that massive collaboration involving hundreds of people is what makes movies possible, and it's also why I would agree that curiosity…
- I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great…
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- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen
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- I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels. — Nicholson Baker