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Reading Quotes by John Green
- ...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…
- 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,…
- [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…
- 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…
- Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.
- This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you…
- Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.
- Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because the book does…
- In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it's printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of…
- I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a…
- Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection…
- Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
- Reading it the night before, I'd wondered if it would be like that for me-if in one moment, I would finally understand her, know her,…
- He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
- The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves
- I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than…
- Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there is symbols in…
- Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be…
- Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
- Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His dad asked. "Yup," Colin said. He liked all books,…
- Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each…
- In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute— how dismissive it is, how it’s the equivalent of calling someone little, how…
- If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.” “So you’re into it.” “Withholding judgment! When can I…
- Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their…
- Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of reading is not to understand the authors intend.…
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- Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen