Posts tagged john green

laughingsquid:

38 Common Spelling and Grammar Errors

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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

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You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you.
John Green; The Fault in Our Stars
That’s the thing about pain…it demands to be felt.
John Green; The Fault in Our Stars
So true.

So true.

I do think about my readers when I’m writing but I never write down to them. I never say ’ Oh this idea is too complicated for them.’ or ’ I don’t want to have this symbolic structure, because it won’t resonate with them.’ I never think about that, because I think that teenagers are infinitely intellectually capable. As long as we grant them intelligence they will show us that intelligence.
John Green, in an interview for German TV (via illustratedwords)
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; An Abundance of Katherines

thecrashcourse:

Love or Lust? Romeo and Juliet Part II: Crash Course English Literature #3

In which John Green returns to William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to explore the themes of true love, lust, and whether Romeo and Juliet were truly, deeply in love, or they were just a pair of impetuous teens. How exactly did Romeo manage to go from pining for Rosaline to marrying Juliet in 36 hours? Maybe they were impetuous teens who were ALSO deeply in love. John looks into how the structure and conventions of society in medieval Verona led to the star-crossed lovers’ downfall. Along the way, you’ll learn about courtly love, medieval responsibility to church, family and society, Chipotle burritos as a metaphor for true love, and even learn about literary sex. We may even tie in trapeze artists and Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. You’ll have to watch to find out.

thecrashcourse:

How and Why We Read: Crash Course English Literature #1

In which John Green kicks off the Crash Course Literature mini series with a reasonable set of questions. Why do we read? What’s the point of reading critically. John will argue that reading is about effectively communicating with other people. Unlike a direct communication though, the writer has to communicate with a stranger, through time and space, with only “dry dead words on a page.” So how’s that going to work? Find out with Crash Course Literature! Also, readers are empowered during the open letter, so that’s pretty cool.

Currently reading.

Currently reading.

ivyink:

“Existentital Airport Anxiety”

American author John Green talks about his thoughts on Ray Bradbury’s novel “Fahrenheit 451” and David Foster Wallace’s unfinished novel “The Pale King” - especially about Wallace’s idea of the “deeper type of omnipresent pain [of living] that Wallace is writing about”. Of how we life in a world in which we permanently try to distract ourselves from this pain.

Poignant.

Thomas Edison’s last words were ‘It’s very beautiful over there’. I don’t know where there is, but I believe it’s somewhere, and I hope it’s beautiful.
John Green; Looking for Alaska