John Green Quotes

John Green Quotes.

We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writer

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
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
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
Whatever, bro. We both had a long day. Too much drama. I’ll TTYS.” I wanted to ridicule him for using chatspeak IRL, but I found myself lacking the energy.
John Green
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
John Green
I’m not sure if I’m depressed. I mean, I’m not exactly sad. But I’m not exactly happy either. I can laugh and joke and smile during the day, But sometimes when I’m alone at night I forget how to feel.
John Green
I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
John Green
Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There’s a certain glory in both.
John Green
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
You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
John Green
When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on this trip through emotions and through various forms of intellectual engagement.
John Green
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
Grief doesn’t change you. It reveals you.
John Green
In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life.” (p. 28)
John Green
I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
John Green
One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.
John Green
By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.
John Green

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