Top 42 John Green Writing Quotes
#1. 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.
John Green
#2. Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think stories help us fight the nihilistic urges that constantly threaten to consume us.
John Green
#3. The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.
John Green
#4. I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that world. Nothing ever gets a chance.
John Green
#5. DID YOU KNOW WHETHER OR NOT [SPOILER REDACTED BECAUSE I KNOW PEOPLE WILL READ THIS DISCUSSION GUIDE BEFORE THEY'VE READ THE BOOK, EVEN THOUGH I JUST FORBADE YOU TO DO SO LIKE SIX PARAGRAPHS AGO] WAS INTENTIONAL WHILE YOU WERE WRITING IT?
John Green
#6. [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.
John Green
#7. Writing does not resurrect. It buries.
John Green
#8. If it was that beautiful, why did I leave you
Marian Keyes
#9. We're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them.
John Green
#10. Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.
[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]
John Green
#11. There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.
Matt Taibbi
#12. I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.
Tarvaris Jackson
#13. Sometimes I dream that I'm writing a memoir. A memoir would just be the thing to keep me in the hearts and memories of my adoring public.
John Green
#14. You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
John Green
#15. A quote says a lot about the author !
John Green
#16. One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.
John Green
#17. For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.
John Green
#18. 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.
John Green
#19. I liked reading biographies of writers, even if (as was the case with Monsieur Rabelais)I'd never read any of their actual writing. I flipped to the back and found the highlighted quote (NEVER USE A HIGHLIGHTER IN MY BOOKS,
John Green
#20. I believe in hope, in what is something called "radical hope." I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that's why I write fiction, probaby. It's my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r
John Green
#22. The difference between a prince and a toad is overrated because they are both just boys underneath the glitter and the warts.
Lauren Bjorkman
#23. The world of any moment is the merest appearance. Some great decorum, some fetish of government, some ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half, as if it all depended on this particular up or down.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#25. 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.
John Green
#26. 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.
John Green
#27. 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.
John Green
#28. 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.
John Green
#29. 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.
John Green
#30. In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album.
John Green
#31. These scenes deal with what happened before Hannibal Lecter was captured for the first time.
Dino De Laurentiis
#32. Natasha tried to wedge herself into the conversation, but as usual the triangle would not widen into a square. p.302
Anthony Marra
#34. This was a very innocent planet, except for thos great big brains.
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Kurt Vonnegut
#35. Could doing brave things make you brave, as push-ups made you stronger? Was courage bone or muscle? Somtehing that was meted out at birth or something that was up to you?
Fischer
#36. 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.
John Green
#37. This is what I love about novels, both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss, to be with you
John Green
#38. The only solution was to try to unmake the world, to make it black and silent and uninhabited again, to return to the moment before the Big Bang, in the beginning when there was the Word, and to live in that vacuous uncreated space alone with the Word.
John Green
#39. The right story needs the right telling.
John Green
#40. You can't get good at anything unless you do it day in and day out, over and over.
Steven Soderbergh
#41. I always love performing live, and that's what I was doing that started getting me acting parts, so I still find time do it.
Mary Lynn Rajskub
#42. Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are paying record high prices for gasoline.
Mike Rogers
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