John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
two guy chicago
Will Grayson, Will Grayson' is about two guys named Will Grayson who live in different Chicago suburbs who eventually meet each other.
player winning games
Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.
book reviews used
I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.
cities firsts chicago
I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.
want chaplains ministers
I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister.
book online conversation
I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.
writing way different
Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.
book reading together
I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.
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.