John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
answers divinity found minister notion offered others people questions quickly school suffer
I was enrolled in divinity school and thought I was going to become a minister - I'm Episcopalian - but I was disavowed of that notion pretty quickly while working at the hospital. I found myself really unfulfilled by the answers that are traditionally offered to questions of why some people suffer and why others suffer so little.
real house answers
Are you currently at your house?" he asked. "Um, no," I said. "That was a trick question. I knew the answer, because I am currently at your house.
answers wonder
I'd rather wonder than get answers I couldn't live with.
answers
the point is that there are always answers.
smart answers enough
There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.
candidate despite lost stronger terms
Sawyer lost despite being the stronger candidate in terms of experience.
adult authors desire follow readers relationship teenage whose work
Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I don't have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books.
among higher hispanic voter
There's higher voter turnout among Hispanic evangelicals than among Hispanics in general.
bit good quality strange stuff
It does have a kind of byzantine quality to it. There is a good bit of strange stuff going on.
best hard smaller surely tax
Those big things are hard to do under the best of circumstances. Surely there are smaller things he can do, such as with the tax code.
broadcast emotions held personal registered took
She took it in, and I could tell it really registered with her. But she held her personal emotions to get the broadcast on the air.
disease family fiction fit heroic novels politics romantic room teen tend war
We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.
changed figuring happened lives people reasons seat teens
I'm a very introverted person. Nothing that's happened has changed that, but one of the reasons I write for teens is it's a real privilege to have a seat at the table in the lives of young people when they're figuring out what matters to them.
basement book finished four moment people responding sitting spend start waiting work year
When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come out and then you get the feedback. When you do work online, the moment you're finished making it, people start responding to it which is really fun and allows for a kind of community development you just can't have in novels.