John Green Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• So here's my advice: Study broadly and without fear. Learn a language if you can, because that will make your life more interesting. Read a little bit every day. But more importantly, surround yourself with people who you like and make cool stuff with them. In the end, what you do isn't going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with.

  John Green

  People, Interesting, Advice

• You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

  John Green

  Death, Real, Writing

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.68, Penguin

• Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's true whether you're reading Shakespeare or bad vampire fiction-reading is always an act of empathy. It's always an imagining of what it's like to be someone else.

  John Green

  Reading, Writing, Ideas

• The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that’s why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood.

  John Green

  Two, Verbs, Matter

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.134, Penguin

• Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.

  John Green

  Communication, Errors, Talking

• Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat.

  John Green

  Dutch, Language, Throat

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.127, Penguin UK

• Language buries, but does not resurrect.

  John Green

  Deep Thought, Doe, Language

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.68, Penguin

• 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.

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