I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books. John Green Read Quote
Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There’s a certain glory in both. John Green Read Quote
My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy. John Green Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I don’t think we should see the world of books as fundamentally separate from the world of the Internet. Yes, the Internet contains a lot of videos of squirrels riding skateboards, but it can also be a place that facilitates big conversations about books. John Green Read Quote
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.’ John Green Read Quote
There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles – books, in short, that are as much like ‘Angry Birds’ as possible. But I think that’s a terrible idea. John Green Read Quote
You can’t not like ‘The Great Gatsby.’ It’s got the best sentences in, like, ever. John Green Read Quote
I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you’re going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What’s going to be most important to you? And I think that’s really interesting to write about. John Green Read Quote
