John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
thinking people
Life works best when we think of people as people.
hope teenage alaska
We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.
hurt it-hurts
It hurts because it mattered.
inspirational real people
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.
inspirational life inspiring
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
inspirational motivational failure
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
rain unrequited-love thinking
So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.
hard-work people want
Don’t make stuff because you want to make money - it will never make you enough money. And don’t make stuff because you want to get famous - because you will never feel famous enough. Make gifts for people - and work hard on making those gifts in the hope that those people will notice and like the gifts.
responsibility people
Your responsibility is not to the people you're making the gift for, but the gift itself.
book algorithms good-book
You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
gratitude crazy stories
Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this crazy, sprawling story.
lying book soul
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.
past feels assured
The past feels distant, even when it's near. The future feels assured, even when it isn't.
taste-in-music fantastic social
You either have a great social life and shitty taste in music, or a fantastic taste in music with barely any social life.