John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
teenager wrestling thinking
I think teenagers bring a lot of intellectual sophistication. They're wrestling with big questions. It's just that, a lot of times they do that separately from adults.
thinking sick alive
When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and less alive until finally they are gone.
miracle consciousness humans
The miracle and hope of human consciousness is that we can still conceive of boundlessness.
thinking hopeful nihilism
I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism.
pain thinking joy
I think that it's a universal urge to have our pain not be felt alone and to have our joys not be felt alone.
want too-much way
The universe is biased toward consciousness because the universe wants to be noticed. It's a way into existential hope that doesn't have too much cliché wrapped around it.
school thinking parent
I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and because they were great, I thought very little about them in high school.
father character interesting
Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.
jobs people everyday
One of the jobs of a writer is to add nuance and ambiguity to that straight line that people often draw to very specific kinds of heroism. Most of us don't get to be Snooki. For most of us heroism has to be in our everyday lives.
stars hero journey
If we restructure things to see that the hero's journey is a degree in astrophysics rather than a journey to star in a reality show, that's a better world.
people literature heroic
All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.
religious kids thinking
I don't think ministering requires a religious context. The number one thing is that every parent is extremely worried about their kid. Of course, when a chaplain shows up, that can exacerbate this worry rather than calm it.
religious thinking people
I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position.
thinking challenges vision
The challenge is the same whether or not I'm collaborating: to empathize with your reader and to tell a story that will matter to him or her. But the mechanics of going about that challenge change when you're collaborating, because you have someone to help refine your thinking and expand your vision of what might happen.