#be

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together. ↗

— John Green

#book #books #collaboration #every #i

I love making YouTube videos. I love Tumblr, I love Twitter. I love talking with people I find interesting about stuff I find interesting, and the Internet is a great way to do that. ↗

— John Green

#find #great #great way #i #i love

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

#chicago #city #favorite #first #i

I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come. ↗

— John Green

#believer #big #big believer #classics #cold

I was never famous as a kid. That's the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is that I wasn't famous as a kid. ↗

— Seth Green

#any #between #biggest #biggest difference #difference

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

#attention #attention spans #become #bells #bells and whistles

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. ↗

— John Green

#american #because #disease #epic #family

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

#i #i remember #kid #kurt #like

You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever. ↗

— John Green

#ever #got #great #like #sentences

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important. ↗

— Julien Green

#because #begin #dare #important #just