John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
book writing people
I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that world. Nothing ever gets a chance.
writing stories needs
The right story needs the right telling.
inspiration thinking noticing
I think inspiration is always around; it's just a question of whether or not you're noticing it.
crazy broken world
The amazing thing is that we're right to hold onto hope. The world may be broken but hope is not crazy.
crazy reality broken
We live in this irreparably broken world, and I don't wish to deny reality, but the amazing thing to me is not that we refuse to relinquish hope as a species. The amazing thing is that we're right to hold on to hope. The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy. ... Obviously not all stories end happily. We don't always have good fortune, but hope gives us, as a species and as individuals, what we otherwise wouldn't have: A chance.
swings catholic voters
The Catholic hierarchy has become more conservative. What we don't know is whether [Catholic voters] will become increasingly conservative, or .. stay swing voters.
moving fifty shade
My inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves.
writing faces spit
Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel.
real writing fighting
Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think stories help us fight the nihilistic urges that constantly threaten to consume us.
writing work-out stuff
That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.
falling-in-love ends landing
I know what happens a the end of falling-landing.
crazy book independent
I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable.
talking interesting people
I love making YouTube videos. I love Tumblr, I love Twitter. I love talking with people I find interesting about stuff I find interesting, and the Internet is a great way to do that.
nice writing littles
I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit.