John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
believe labyrinth born
I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.
hipster crazy broken
The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.
inspirational life hipster
It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
simple two care
Also, I feel that crying is almost--like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever-- totally avoidable if you follow two very simple rules: 1.Don't care too much. 2. Shut up. Everything unfortunate that has ever happened to me has stemmed from failure to follow one of the rules.
life hurt i-hate-you
Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.
reading writing where-you-are
This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.
life perfect people
I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
inspirational real book
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
book helping feels
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
ought past rarely
All else being equal, past officeholders ought to have an advantage, but all things are rarely equal.
thinking ironic important
There's not a lot of room for un-ironic emotion in contemporary culture. I think that irony is an important tool in dealing with the world as we find it. It's a tool of protection, but it can also be a tool of incision to get to some truth. But along the way maybe we've lost some of what I think of as the power of straightforward emotion and earnestness and seriousness.
jobs thinking people
The way we still essentializ, we're constantly essentializing people as merely poor, or merely other, and in the end you can't have a relationship with people. I think the biggest job of adulthood is to learn to imagine other people complexly.
book keys passionate
I change my keyboard between every book. I usually shop around. I'm very passionate about the physical feel of pressing the keys. It's got to have the right springiness. I tend to find the built-in keys very unsatisfying, the keys are low-profile and don't really do anything - I want it to feel like I'm typing.
teenager culture passionate
I'm interested in Internet cultures. I'm interested in what the teenagers who drive the Internet culture are passionate about. I follow their lead - they go to tumblr, I go to tumblr.