John Green Quotes

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

We do an epically bad job of acknowledging one another's work and checking our sources.

Books are like tweets, except longer.

Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity

The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.

We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.'

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

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

I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.

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.

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

Will Grayson, Will Grayson' is about two guys named Will Grayson who live in different Chicago suburbs who eventually meet each other.

I love making YouTube videos. I love Tumblr, I love Twitter. I love talking with people I find interesting about stuff I find interesting, and the Internet is a great way to do that.

I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable.

I know what happens a the end of falling-landing.

That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.

Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel.

The Catholic hierarchy has become more conservative. What we don't know is whether [Catholic voters] will become increasingly conservative, or .. stay swing voters.

The right story needs the right telling.

Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of (man) lies to his own mother?

Nerdighters make me believe in America again.

I'm at the eye doctor. I'm always at the eye doctor. It's like this is my profession. I am no longer a writer, I'm now an optomoligical patient. By the way, this job doesn't pay well.

Nerdfighter pwns woot. Everyone knows that.

I don't have a favourite book, I have hundreds.

I have two kinds of Facebook friends: Those who know what 'DFTBA' means, and those who don't.

You can't not like "The Great Gatsby." It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.

It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.

For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, “Run run run run run,” and took off, pulling me behind her.

And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

If drunk were cookies, I'd be Famous Amos

Not to ask the obvious question, but why Alaska?

Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus.

That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back.

Colin's skin was alive with the feeling of connection to everyone in that car and everyone not in it. And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.

Because you're only thinking they-might-not-like-me-they-might-not-like-me, and guess what? When you act like that, no one likes you.

We're not going to break anything. Don't think of it as breaking in to SeaWorld. Think of it as visiting SeaWorld in the middle of the night for free.

I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down on your calf and try to suck out the snake poison.

You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers.

You're awfully philosophical for a girl that just got busted.

Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.

…God, it’s over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people’s problems and get some of your own.

I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, “listening quietly” was my general social strategy

Ashes to ashes. Garage sale to garage sale,” I said.

Those of us who frequent the band room have long suspected that Becca maintains her lovely figure by eating nothing but the souls of kittens and the dreams of impoverished children.

You know what I hate? The outdoors. I mean, generally. I don't like outside. I'm an inside person. I'm all about refrigeration and indoor plumbing and Judge Judy.

For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps.

It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes.

Was it animal pee or human pee? Someone asked. How would I know? What, am I an expert in the study of pee?

I thought you hung the moon.

Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You never get me. That's the whole point.