John Green Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

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

  John Green

  Book, Reading, Understanding

• This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.

  John Green

  Reading, Writing, Where You Are

  "An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall". nerdfighteria.info. January 15, 2013.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• [This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are choosing which symbols to use.

  John Green

  Reading, Writing, Talking

• 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

• 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

• I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have, it's the only way of learning how to write a story.

  John Green

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  YouTube Chanel "vlogbrothers"/ "Nov. 26th: Writing Advice (And Notes on Surnameless Tiffany)", www.youtube.com. November 26, 2007.

• Reading it the night before, I'd wondered if it would be like that for me-if in one moment, I would finally understand her, know her, and understand the role I'd played in her dying. But I wasn't convinced enlightenment struck like lightining.

  John Green

  Reading, Night, Dying

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

• Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of reading is not to understand the authors intend. The job of reading is to see into other people as we see ourselves.

  John Green

  Jobs, Reading, People

• I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now of course the adult would be all like, 'I'm busy, I got a job, I got stuff to do.' WHATEVER! READ! I mean, you're watching CSI: Miami. Why would you be watching CSI: Miami, when you could be READING CSI: Miami, the novelization?

  John Green

  Jobs, Teenager, Book

• If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.” “So you’re into it.” “Withholding judgment! When can I see you?” “Certainly not until you finish An Imperial Affliction.” I enjoyed being coy. “Then I’d better hang up and start reading.” “You’d better,” I said, and the line clicked dead without another word. Flirting was new to me, but I liked it.

  John Green

  Reading, Eye, Flirting

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

• I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!

  John Green

  Teaching, Reading, Thinking

• Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort it is to share readings and experiences. How lucky we are when we get to be alone together.

  John Green

  Real, Book, Reading

• The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves

  John Green

  Jobs, Reading, People

• Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His dad asked. "Yup," Colin said. He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

  John Green

  Dad, Book, Reading

  John Green (2006). “An Abundance of Katherines”, Dutton Childrens Books

• Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there is symbols in books and why your English teacher deserves your attention. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter if the author intended the symbol to be there because the job of reading is not to understand the author’s intent. The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as a we ourselves.

  John Green

  Teacher, Jobs, Book

• 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

  Falling In Love, Teenager, Love You

• In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute— how dismissive it is, how it’s the equivalent of calling someone little, how it makes a person into a baby, how the word is a neon sign burning through the dark reading, “Feel Bad About Yourself.

  John Green

  Cute, Baby, Reading

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.55, Penguin

• Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences.

  John Green

  Reading, People, Understanding

• Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.

  John Green

  Reading, World, Quiet

• ...I will continue to underscore that I don't think authorial intent is all that important to a reading experience, and I certainly don't think the job of reading is to divine authorial intent.

  John Green

  Jobs, Real, Reading

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