Quote by John Green

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

— John Green

“I've never said anything worth quoting. You can quote me on that. My characters' words are another matter.”

— Karen Vorbeck Williams

“At times, quotes from the books talk more about our lives than on the lives of the characters.”

— John Green

“Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

“What we put in and leave out of our stories tells us something about who we are.”

— Eddie S. Glaude Jr

“We are not only the tellers of our stories, we are the stories themselves.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I am more well known for quotes than books.”

— Steven Magee

“Stories often project the best that humanity has to offer. If only we could live up to our stories.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

“We all tell stories--to ourselves and to each other. Some of learn to tell only the most interesting bits.”

— Shannon Donnelly

“We are the stories we tell about ourselves. But when those stories are lies, we are the most surprised of all.”

— Brent Weeks

“We ain't anything more than a name and some likes and some distastes, and a story we tell about ourselves.' And what others say…

— M.T. Anderson

“And the stories we tell ourselves are not the only stories.”

— Erica Lorraine Scheidt