John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
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I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin.
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We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love.
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I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation.
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That was part of her, and you used to know it. It's like now you only care about the Alaska you made up.
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Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.
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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.