John Green (author)

Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.

John Green

Easy comfort isn’t comforting.

John Green

Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.

John Green

Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this crazy, sprawling story.

John Green

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

John Green

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

I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.

John Green

I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.

John Green

I fell in love like you would fall asleep: slowly and then all at once.

John Green

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