John Green Quotes

I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you're going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What's going to be most important to you? And I think that's really interesting to write about.
John Green

Life, Love, Time

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 collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.
John Green

True, Book, Person

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.
John Green

Bored, Friends, Tell

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 to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented.
John Green

Love, Time, Person

Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.
John Green

Time, Great, Live

Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.
John Green

Different, Write, Ways

Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating.
John Green

Love, Time, Hope

I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sort of organizing factor, hopefully that I played a role in.
John Green

Universe, Purpose, Plan

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 or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise.
John Green

Great, Character, Person

I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go wherever she has a job. All basements look the same, so I can write from whatever basement I happen to be living in.
John Green

Art, Live, Wife

I don't think we should see the world of books as fundamentally separate from the world of the Internet. Yes, the Internet contains a lot of videos of squirrels riding skateboards, but it can also be a place that facilitates big conversations about books.
John Green

Big, Place, Books

I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.
John Green

Books, Build, Places

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 can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit.
John Green

Nice, Write, Bit

I love making YouTube videos. I love Tumblr, I love Twitter. I love talking with people I find interesting about stuff I find interesting, and the Internet is a great way to do that.
John Green

Love, Great, Find

I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister.
John Green

Time, Realized, Minister

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 value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can.
John Green

Great, Reading, Value

I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable.
John Green

Money, Crazy, Book

I was enrolled in divinity school and thought I was going to become a minister - I'm Episcopalian - but I was disavowed of that notion pretty quickly while working at the hospital. I found myself really unfulfilled by the answers that are traditionally offered to questions of why some people suffer and why others suffer so little.
John Green

School, Thought, Pretty

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.
John Green

Place, Second, Writer

I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come.
John Green

Time, Hope, Long

I'm a very introverted person. Nothing that's happened has changed that, but one of the reasons I write for teens is it's a real privilege to have a seat at the table in the lives of young people when they're figuring out what matters to them.
John Green

Nothing, Real, Person

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.
John Green

Bad, Living, Used

It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.
John Green

Money, Movies, Hard

My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.
John Green

Happy, True, Try

One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.
John Green

Truth, Wise, Writing

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 24, 1977

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