John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
suffering nihilism problem
the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.
swings problem ninety
We gotta do something about this frigging swing set,' he said. 'I'm telling you, it's ninety percent of the problem.
people problem stealing
…God, it’s over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people’s problems and get some of your own.
mean eye problem
How are the eyes?' 'Oh, excellent,' he said. 'I mean, they're not in my head is the only problem.
people towns problem
You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.
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.