John Green Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• 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

• When I think about [characters], I like to think of them in their relationships to each other. In the same way, I think that's how humans are ultimately defined. We are our relationships to one another. And a lot of what's interesting about us happens in the context of other people.

  John Green

  Writing, Character, Thinking

• Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.

  John Green

  Real, Character, Support

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.169, Penguin

• Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, and passions, his mistakes, and weaknesses."--Democritus An Abundance of Katherines---John Green

  John Green

  Mistake, Passion, Character

• But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel ... it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended.

  John Green

  Character, Ideas, Special

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

• Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually motivated by altruism or a desire to hook up or a search for answers or what. I always get annoyed when in books or movies characters want clear things for clear reasons, because my experience of humanness is that I always want messy things for messy reasons.

  John Green

  Book, Character, Thinking

• I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z’ed up.

  John Green

  Character, Flaws, These Days

• You had been a paper boy to me all these years - two dimensions as a character on the page and two different, but still flat, dimensions as a person. But that night you turned out to be real.

  John Green

  Real, Character, Boys

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.197, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Nothing (at least that can be done by humans) immortalizes anyone. The Fault in Our Stars will hopefully have a long and wonderful life, but it will eventually go out of print, and eventually the last person ever to read it will die, and then the characters will no longer live in any consciousness.Also, that is okay. That is good, actually. That is how it should be. One of the things the characters in this novel have to grapple with is the reality of temporaryness. What Gus in particular must reconcile himself to is that being temporary does not mean being unimportant or meaningless.

  John Green

  Stars, Real, Character

• 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.

  John Green

  Character, Execution, Adults

  "John Green Interview: ‘Fault In Our Stars’ Author Talks Worst Book Ever, Where He Likes To Read". Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2012.

• All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they are made out of language and are made out of words is extremely powerful to me. It becomes transformative for me. Different people have different ways of trying to make stories using language.

  John Green

  Powerful, Real, Reading

  "The Fault in Our Stars' John Green on Why He Loves Writing For Teens". Interview with Ryan Roschke, www.popsugar.com. March 31, 2015.

• In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

• Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.

  John Green

  Father, Character, Interesting

  Interview with Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. December, 2012.

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