John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
taste feels
That tastes like hope feels.
stuff feels
Doing stuff never feels as good as you hope it will feel.
leaving feels
Leaving feels too good, once you leave.
might cry feels
I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee.
leaving lines feels
...all I have to do is stay in between the lines and make sure that no one is too close to me and I am not too close to anyone and keep leaving. Maybe it felt like this for her, too, but I could never feel like this alone.
suicide let-her-go feels
... I didn't know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go.
past feels assured
The past feels distant, even when it's near. The future feels assured, even when it isn't.
matter things-that-matter feels
I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.
book helping feels
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
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.
creatures easy either illness imagine living people pitfalls tragic truth
One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.