John Green Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• 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.

• The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the human brain is neither a literature organ or a math organ. It is both and more.

  John Green

  Math, People, Brain

• Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.

  John Green

  Literature, Kind, Speak

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

• Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into waist-high stacks of books everywhere, piled haphazardly against the walls. If just one of them moved... the domino effect could engulf the three of us in an asphyxiating mass of literature.

  John Green

  Wall, Book, Library

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.21, Penguin

• All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.

  John Green

  People, Literature, Heroic

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

• I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come.

  John Green

  Opportunity, Long, Literature

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