John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
being-yourself teenager lying
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.
brain
It's bad for your brain not to unplug.
writing people age
One of the things I like about making stuff in the age of the Internet, is that people make stuff in response to it. You can see people respond to your work visually or musically or with writing.
way honest conversation
The consequences of being un-cool feel so big that a lot of times you end of not finding ways to have open and honest conversations.
clever teenager responsibility
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.
powerful real reading
All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they are made out of language and are made out of words is extremely powerful to me. It becomes transformative for me. Different people have different ways of trying to make stories using language.
pigs speech lips
If I could do it all over again," he said, his speech slow and vaguely mangled by his massive lower lip, "I'd just let myself be trampled to death by the Satan Pig.
grizzly-bears strategy grizzlies
We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?
lying simple boys
The pure and simple truth Is rarely pure and never simple. What's a boy to do When lies and truth are both sinful?
tired busy right-thing
Nothing's wrong. Everything's right. Things couldn't be righter. Things could be less tired. They could be less busy. They could be less caffeinated. But they couldn't be righter.
people world paper
It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
running dark wind
Radar revs the engine as to say hustle, and we are running through the parking lot, Ben's robe flowing in the wind so that he looks vaguely like a dark wizard, except that his pale skinny legs are visible, and his arms hug plastic bags. I can see the back of Lacey's legs beneath her dress, her calves tight in midstride. I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.
memories opposites glasses
My head was level with hers as we stared at each other from opposite sides of the glass. I don't remember how it ended - if I went to bed or she did. In my memory, it doesn't end. We just stay there, looking at each other, forever.
forever world left-behind
How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?