The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people.
John GreenI 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 GreenI'm just reveling in the glory of not having to hear the neediness and impotence of my own voice.
John GreenIn general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie dream girl or an Edward Cullen or anything other than a full, complex human being. That said, while I've tried to reflect that in my books, I don't think I've always succeeded, because I am always running up against my own insufficiencies and biases etc.
John Green