John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
reading writing where-you-are
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.
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I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
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Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
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Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
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I think the economy has a good chance of beginning to slow rapidly next fall. We're sort of teetering on the edge of a serious slowdown.
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I was enrolled in divinity school and thought I was going to become a minister - I'm Episcopalian - but I was disavowed of that notion pretty quickly while working at the hospital. I found myself really unfulfilled by the answers that are traditionally offered to questions of why some people suffer and why others suffer so little.
writing order broken
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.
new-york opportunity cities
Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.