John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
writing bored attention
Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.
falling-in-love writing love-is
I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you're going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What's going to be most important to you? And I think that's really interesting to write about.
kids want remember
We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.
sadness joy illness
The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.
stupid simplicity resisting
Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity
book tweet
Books are like tweets, except longer.
love song strong
In these pages, and in my memories, she reminds me that a short life can also be a good and rich life, that it is possible to live with depression without being consumed by it, and that meaning in life is found together, in family and friendship that transcends and survives all manner of suffering. As the poet wrote in the Bible's Song of Solomon, 'Love is strong as death.' Or perhaps even stronger.
bread ust waffles
Waffles аrе јust awesome bread.
jobs bad-jobs source
We do an epically bad job of acknowledging one another's work and checking our sources.
book reading creating
In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it's printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to creating the best possible reading experience for you.
responsibility hopeful trying
My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.
book reading winning
Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because the book does not exist for the benefit of the author, the book exists for the benefit of YOU. If we as readers can have a bigger and richer experience with the world as a result of reading a symbol and that symbol wasn't intended by the author, WE STILL WIN.
worthy valuable worthy-of-love
YOU are valuable and rare and worthy of love.
reading world quiet
Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.