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But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. (Cancer is also a side effect of dying. Almost everything is, really.) (John Green (author))
I'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met. View quote
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So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will) or that there are worse things in the world (which there are). But that's not what I actually needed. What I needed was for someone to tell me that it hurt because it mattered. View quote
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I've always liked quiet people: You never know if they're dancing in a daydream or if they're carrying the weight of the world. View quote
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I don't know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving. View quote
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There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what. View quote
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When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on this trip through emotions and through various forms of intellectual engagement. View quote
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Green, John. (2006). An Abundance of Katherines. New York, New York: Penguin Group, 228.. View quote
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You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers. View quote
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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. View quote
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Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented. (John Green (author))
I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books. View quote
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Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer. View quote
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Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot. View quote
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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.' View quote
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I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise. View quote
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I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister. View quote
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I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go wherever she has a job. All basements look the same, so I can write from whatever basement I happen to be living in. (John Green (author))
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. View quote
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I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books. View quote
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Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it's worth. View quote
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Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin. View quote
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