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John Green Quotes - Page 24

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One of the reasons that metaphor and symbolism are important in books is because they are also important to life. Like, for example say you're in high school and you're a boy and you say to a girl: Do you like anyone

One of the reasons that metaphor and symbolism are important in books is because they are also important to life. Like, for example say you're in high school and you're a boy and you say to a girl: "Do you like anyone right now?" - that's not the question you're asking. The question you're asking is, "do you like me right now."

Girl, Real, Book

...I will continue to underscore that I don't think authorial intent is all that important to a reading experience, and I certainly don't think the job of reading is to divine authorial intent.

Jobs, Real, Reading

Okay, maybe I'm not such a shitty writer. But I can't pull my ideas together, Van Houten. My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations.

Stars, Real, Ideas

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.176, Penguin

Truth defies simplicity.

Real, Simplicity

Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.

Beautiful, Real, Book

In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie dream girl or an Edward Cullen or anything other than a full, complex human being. That said, while I've tried to reflect that in my books, I don't think I've always succeeded, because I am always running up against my own insufficiencies and biases etc.

Girl, Running, Dream

It is a good life, Hazel Grace.

Good Life, Real, Grace

John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.798, Penguin

That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us to choose what matters to us.

Real, Book, What Matters

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have, it's the only way of learning how to write a story.

Reading, Writing, Thinking

YouTube Chanel "vlogbrothers"/ "Nov. 26th: Writing Advice (And Notes on Surnameless Tiffany)", www.youtube.com. November 26, 2007.

We're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them.

Writing, Imagining Things

My interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is totally undiagrammable. My interest is in trying to reflect the reality of experience - how we feel when we talk to each other, how we feel when we're engaging with questions that interest us.

Writing, Reality, Trying

"How John Green Wrote a Cancer Book but Not a 'Bullshit Cancer Book'". Interview with Rebecca J. Rosen, www.theatlantic.com. February 25, 2013.

When I think about [characters], I like to think of them in their relationships to each other. In the same way, I think that's how humans are ultimately defined. We are our relationships to one another. And a lot of what's interesting about us happens in the context of other people.

Writing, Character, Thinking

Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid, no work of the imagination is truly apolitical, because the world and our hopes for it are always part of our stories.

Twilight, Writing, People

Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me out of my sentimentality. For me at least, fiction is the only way I can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.

Memories, Lying, Writing

One of the pitfalls about writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise-beyond-their-years creatures or these sad-eyed tragic people. And the truth is, people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer. They're every bit as funny and complex and diverse as anyone else.

Wise, Cancer, Writing

'Do you know,' he asked in a delicious accent, 'what Dom Pérignon said after inventing champagne?' 'No?' I said. 'He called out to his fellow monks, 'Come quickly: I am tasting the stars!'

Stars, Wine, Monk

Does my eye look okay to you?

Hipster, Eye, Doe

Grateful to be a little boat, full of water, still floating.

Hipster, Grateful, Water

FaceBook post by John Green from Oct 14, 2013

I was a fairly shy person - not the hand raising type.

Hipster, Hands, Shy

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.225, Penguin

All the things paper-thin and paper-frail, and all the people too.

Hipster, People, Paper

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.58, A&C Black

It's hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist.

Eye, Thinking, Cities

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.154, Penguin UK

Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.

Reading, World, Quiet

YOU are valuable and rare and worthy of love.

Worthy, Valuable, Worthy Of Love

My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.

Responsibility, Hopeful, Trying

In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it's printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to creating the best possible reading experience for you.

Book, Reading, Writing

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