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John Green Quotes about Writing

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Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye contact while telling it

Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye contact while telling it

Writing, Eye, Stories

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

Death, Real, Writing

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.68, Penguin

Writing does not resurrect. It buries.

Writing, Doe

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.152, Penguin

Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's true whether you're reading Shakespeare or bad vampire fiction-reading is always an act of empathy. It's always an imagining of what it's like to be someone else.

Reading, Writing, Ideas

What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees into paper or editors or agents or even writers. We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.

Real, Book, Writing

[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are choosing which symbols to use.

Reading, Writing, Talking

I write about broken people who need other people in order to go on. But those are the only kind of people I know to exist. We are all broken.

Writing, Order, People

Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot. The second thing is to write. And the third thing, which I think is absolutely vital, is to tell stories and listen closely to the stories you're being told.

Writing, Thinking, Advice

John Green (2012). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.216, Penguin UK

This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.

Reading, Writing, Where You Are

"An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall". nerdfighteria.info. January 15, 2013.

One of the things I like about making stuff in the age of the Internet, is that people make stuff in response to it. You can see people respond to your work visually or musically or with writing.

Writing, People, Age

"Q&A: John Green & Nat Wolff on ‘Paper Towns’ Themes, Inside Jokes, Nicknames". Interview with Seth Kelley, variety.com. July 19, 2015.

But I had to kill you, because the only other possible ending was us doing it, which I wasn't really emotionally ready to write about at ten.' 'Fair enough,' I say. 'But in the revision, I want to get some action.

Writing, Want, Revision

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.290, A&C Black

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

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

I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you're going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What's going to be most important to you? And I think that's really interesting to write about.

Falling In Love, Writing, Love Is

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.

Writing, Bored, Attention

"Evening Of Awesome: John Green At Carnegie Hall" by Zoë Triska, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 16, 2013.

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.

Book, Reading, Writing

Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.

Writing, Different, Way

Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating.

Writing, Love Is, Trying

I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go wherever she has a job. All basements look the same, so I can write from whatever basement I happen to be living in.

Art, Jobs, Writing

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