John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
opportunity long literature
I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come.
lying grief long
Grief does not change you. It reveals you. And herein lies the gift that cannot die. It changes the course of your life forever. If you allow yourself the chance to feel it for as long as you need to - even if it is for the rest of your life - you will be guided by it. You will become someone it would have been impossible for you to be, and in this way your loved one lives on, in you
block coal-miners coal
Coal miners don't get coal miners' block.
mom mother lying
Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of (man) lies to his own mother?
school people realizing
High School made me realize that the people who say they will never change, are always the ones who change the most.
destiny retrospect happens
Destiny is not something that happens all at once-it's something that happens only in retrospect.
stories world want
As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.
imagining-the-future alaska labyrinth
You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth...
thinking riches wanted
I think that most of us [writers] would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich, we'd be doing smething else.
girl nerd world
Nerd girls are the world's greatest under-utilized romantic resource.
ideas strange defined
. . . Endlessness is a really strange idea in a universe that is defined by its endings.
hurt real important
The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself.
heaven dumb intellectual
I was surprised. I'd always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement. But Gus wasn't dumb.
parent matter patient
Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.