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John Green Quotes

We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must strike it down because it threatens the overall quality and breadth of American literature Picture Quote #1

We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, ‘I want to be Kurt Vonnegut Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat parties had, but the opposite has been true for me. I’m much less likely to feel that gnawing fear of aimlessness and nihilism than I used to be and that’s partly because education gave me job opportunities, but it’s mostly because education gave me perspective and context Picture Quote #1

Teenagers are extremely funny, and extremely clever and intellectually curious. But they’re also willing to ask questions about the meaning of life without disguising them around irony, and ask questions about what are our responsibilities to other people without having to couch it in irony Picture Quote #1

I think that most of us [writers] would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich, we’d be doing smething else Picture Quote #1

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Don’t lie to anyone, but particularly don’t lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you’re old, be old. If you don’t know anything about pop culture, don’t pretend to know anything about pop culture. When you credit teenagers with intelligence and emotional sophistication, they respond intelligently and with emotional sophistication Picture Quote #1

I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who’s afraid of the dark Picture Quote #1

The afternoon light brightening the green in her eyes, her tan skin the last memory of fall Picture Quote #1

It’s not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That’s the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering? Picture Quote #1

She’d obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me Picture Quote #1

If I’m too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate! Picture Quote #1

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All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby Picture Quote #1

There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like ‘Angry Birds’ as possible. But I think that’s a terrible idea Picture Quote #1

I don’t see any point in nihilism...just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

When you’re as charming and physically attractive as myself, it’s easy enough to win over people you meet. But getting strangers to love you...now, that’s the trick Picture Quote #1

Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn’t going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me Picture Quote #1

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If you don’t live a life in service of a greater good, you’ve gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won’t get either a life or a death that means anything Picture Quote #1

I’m a bad boyfriend. She’s a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The funny thing about writing is that whether you’re doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That’s actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing Picture Quote #1

At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved Picture Quote #1

I left the only way you can leave. You pull your life off all at once - like a Band-Aid Picture Quote #1

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We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must strike it down because it threatens the overall quality and breadth of American literature (John Green Quotes) We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, ‘I want to be Kurt Vonnegut (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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat parties had, but the opposite has been true for me. I’m much less likely to feel that gnawing fear of aimlessness and nihilism than I used to be and that’s partly because education gave me job opportunities, but it’s mostly because education gave me perspective and context (John Green Quotes) Teenagers are extremely funny, and extremely clever and intellectually curious. But they’re also willing to ask questions about the meaning of life without disguising them around irony, and ask questions about what are our responsibilities to other people without having to couch it in irony (John Green Quotes) I think that most of us [writers] would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich, we’d be doing smething else (John Green Quotes) Don’t lie to anyone, but particularly don’t lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you’re old, be old. If you don’t know anything about pop culture, don’t pretend to know anything about pop culture. When you credit teenagers with intelligence and emotional sophistication, they respond intelligently and with emotional sophistication (John Green Quotes) I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who’s afraid of the dark. (John Green Quotes) The afternoon light brightening the green in her eyes, her tan skin the last memory of fall (John Green Quotes) It’s not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That’s the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering? (John Green Quotes) She’d obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me. (John Green Quotes) If I’m too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate! (John Green Quotes) All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby. (John Green Quotes) There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like ‘Angry Birds’ as possible. But I think that’s a terrible idea. (John Green Quotes) I don’t see any point in nihilism...just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else. (John Green Quotes) 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 Quotes) When you’re as charming and physically attractive as myself, it’s easy enough to win over people you meet. But getting strangers to love you...now, that’s the trick. (John Green Quotes) Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn’t going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me. (John Green Quotes) If you don’t live a life in service of a greater good, you’ve gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won’t get either a life or a death that means anything. (John Green Quotes) I’m a bad boyfriend. She’s a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other. (John Green Quotes) 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 Quotes) The funny thing about writing is that whether you’re doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That’s actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing. (John Green Quotes) At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved. (John Green Quotes) I left the only way you can leave. You pull your life off all at once - like a Band-Aid. (John Green Quotes)

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