Children Quote by John Green

“The child who believes there is life after a novel ends.”

— John Green

Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

— John Green

History begins in novel and ends in essay.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“It would be better to close the book, close the books, and to face, all at once, not life, which is very big, but…

— Alejandro Zambra

[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet…

— Richard Peck

If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and…

— Mark Twain

“But the slice-of-life novel is really not so much a world apart as an interlude - like the conference or the film set, the…

— Susan Cooper

“Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is a novel without narration. A poem is the…

— Fernando Pessoa

For me, a memoir is supposed to be understood as a representation of your life, whereas a novel is self-consciously symbolic.

— Sheila Heti

If life were a novel, then dead would mark the end of the first chapter.

— Kelly Nelson

“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing arts (such…

— Fernando Pessoa

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you.…

— Lynn Johnston