John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
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While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional.
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This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.
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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.
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She’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome.
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feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when.
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Sawyer lost despite being the stronger candidate in terms of experience.
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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.
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There's higher voter turnout among Hispanic evangelicals than among Hispanics in general.
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It does have a kind of byzantine quality to it. There is a good bit of strange stuff going on.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.