John Green Novel Quotes

#1. John Green has written a powerful novel - one that plunges headlong into the labyrinth of life, love, and the mysteries of being human. This is a book that will touch your life, so don't read it sitting down. Stand up, and take a step into the Great Perhaps.

KL Going

#2. You said on my birthday that you were afraid of being alone, but I've been here this whole time. This whole time.

Stephanie Perkins

#3. A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

John Green

#4. If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void

Barack Obama

#5. I know it sounds strange - a blind teenager buzzin' round on a motorcycle - but I liked that; that was me. I had always been nervy, and I always had a lot of faith in my ability not to break my neck.

Ray Charles

#6. Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#7. Sick children inevitably become arrested: You are fated to live out your days as the child you were when diagnosed, the child who believes there is a life after a novel ends.

John Green

#8. The child who believes there is life after a novel ends.

John Green

#9. A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it.

John Green

#10. I didn't go to Hebrew school.

Amy Heckerling

#11. There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster, and direct it are not unlike those of a good quartermaster.

Anne Truitt

#12. I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit.

John Green

#13. 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.

John Green

#14. That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.

June Jordan

#15. Joy
Is for the simple or the great to feel,
Neither of which we are.

Philip Larkin

#16. I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise.

John Green

#17. Clarabelle, did you draw a smiley face on the robot? - Nye

Derek Landy

#18. 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.

John Green