John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
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.
stuff feels
Doing stuff never feels as good as you hope it will feel.
writing work-out stuff
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.
perfect stuff fairytale
He wasn't perfect or anything. He wasn;t your fairytale prince charming or whatever. He tried to be like that sometimes,but i liked him best when that stuff fell away.
people nerd stuff
Hank, when people call people nerds mostly what they're saying is,'You like stuff'.
argument books carefully great instead ipad offers people places pleasures process publishers readers reading value writers
I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can.
birthday loves party wrapped
We had a party, a Father's Day party, going-away party and daughter's birthday party all wrapped up in one, ... He was great; the thing of it is he loves kids.
cities people towns
I'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met.
fun sadness gone
The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.
smoking too-much cheetahs
I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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.