John Green Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.

  John Green

  Book, Reading, Understanding

• The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without museums, without historical markers, without anyone to mourn them. I silently resolved to remember and pray for the four Aron Franks as long as I was around.

  John Green

  Book, Museums, Names

  "An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall". "Vlogbrothers" with John and Hank Green, nerdfighteria.info. January 15, 2013.

• Have you really read all those books in your room?” Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.

  John Green

  Summer, Book, Alaska

• When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us.

  John Green

  Book, Thinking, World

• You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of the bookstore - is that no algorithm will ever understand readers the way that other readers can understand readers.

  John Green

  Book, Secret, Algorithms

• Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

  John Green

  Stars, Real, Reading

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.33, Penguin

• When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.

  John Green

  Girl, Hipster, Book

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.68, Penguin

• Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

  John Green

  Book, Reading, Helping

• Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Real, Book

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.106, Penguin

• Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Teen Whisperer" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 9 & 16, 2014.

• I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr.

  John Green

  Book, Character, Simple

• Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

  John Green

  Real, Book, Towns

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.183, A&C Black

• He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.26, Penguin

• Books belong to their readers.

  John Green

  Book, Reader

  FaceBook post by John Green from Feb 02, 2014

• You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.

  John Green

  Book, Algorithms, Good Book

• What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees into paper or editors or agents or even writers. We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.

  John Green

  Real, Book, Writing

• I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because there's nothing I can do about hurting you: You're too invested, so just please let me do that, okay? "I'm going to go to my room and read for awhile, okay? I'm fine. I really am fine: I just want to go read for a while.

  John Green

  Hurt, Book, Thinking

• I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's strange to me that we should be so quick to give up on a book or a math problem when we are so willing to grapple, for centuries if necessary, with a single level of Angry Birds.

  John Green

  Giving Up, Fun, Hate

• We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must strike it down because it threatens the overall quality and breadth of American literature.

  John Green

  Lying, Book, Soul

  "John Green: why I'll never self-publish" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2013.

• We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

  John Green

  Girl, Book, Fall

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.149, Penguin

• Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

  John Green

  Book, Ladders, Companion

• Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because the book does not exist for the benefit of the author, the book exists for the benefit of YOU. If we as readers can have a bigger and richer experience with the world as a result of reading a symbol and that symbol wasn't intended by the author, WE STILL WIN.

  John Green

  Book, Reading, Winning

• That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence

  John Green

  Book, Way, Death And Dying

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.67, Penguin

• Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?!

  John Green

  Book, Missing, Grace

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.38, Penguin

• Radar threw his books into his locker and shut it. Then the din of conversation around us quieted just a bit as he turned his eyes toward the heavens and shouted, "IT IS NOT MY FAULT THAT MY PARENTS OWN THE WORLD'S LARGEST COLLECTION OF BLACK SANTAS.

  John Green

  Book, Eye, Parent

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.22, A&C Black

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