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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


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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


#also #bit #feel #ground #grounds

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


#books #carefully #consolations #contemplative #ever

I'm a very introverted person. Nothing that's happened has changed that, but one of the reasons I write for teens is it's a real privilege to have a seat at the table in the lives of young people when they're figuring out what matters to them.


John Green


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Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I don't have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books.


John Green


#also #any #authors #books #desire

I was never specifically associated with a part, I didn't have tons of money, I wasn't conventionally tall or handsome, so you know the things that were available to me were hard work and perseverance.


Seth Green


#available #handsome #hard #hard work #i

Doing something because it's quote-unquote a good career move doesn't really appeal to me.


Seth Green


#because #career #doing #good #me

I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designers, puppet builders. animators, everybody that works on the show take their work very seriously. So somebody saying that we'd even be in contention for a very respectable award is really nice.


Seth Green


#award #builders #contention #designers #even

I think I've always just been kinda geeky and got to play some mildly appealing roles.


Seth Green


#appealing #been #geeky #got #i

It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny.


Seth Green


#funny #hysterically #real #sad #same






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