Now you
know a little bit about him because of my last essays, for examples he supports
“nerds”, he called himself a nerd. He really is trying to change the point of
view that young people have now (he writes for adolescents because he doesn´t
think adults are very interesting) about what we like, the way we don’t care
about learning new things, how society has changed our point of view. Like this quote is so perfect to me, I mean
this quote should be read by everyone:
“That’s
always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone
because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color
instead of taste.”
— John
Green, Paper Town
He have
different types of books but in almost all of them he tries to encourage
ourselves to never give up and not because sometimes we had a problem, it means
that we can’t get over it.
I recommend
Paper Towns, I think everyone should read that book! He began writing it
thinking about whether there was meaning to suffering, and how one can
reconcile one’s self to a world where suffering is so unjustly distributed. And
let’s be honest, we (teenagers) are in the phase when we believe everyone is
against us, life is not fair, no one understand blah blah …
I can keep
talking about him all day but the point is, the cool thing is that writers are
free to express themselves, so they can go wild and write about anything they
want. It can be about their new book, series, their life, imagination, etc.
I’ll put some of my favorite quotes from him, and I can’t imagine someone not
loving this man, I mean just read the quotes.
“Maybe our
favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're
quoting.”
― John
Green
“What is
the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John
Green, An Abundance of Katherines
“I’m starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It’s so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.”
— John Green,Paper Towns
“I’m starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It’s so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.”
— John Green,Paper Towns
“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like
saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that
you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are
things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?'
In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even
'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a
limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
― John
Green
“Those
awful things are survivable because we are as indestructible as we believe
ourselves to be.”
— John
Green,Looking for Alaska
“At some
point, you just pull off the band-aid, and it hurts, but then it’s over and
you’re relieved.”
— John
Green, Looking for Alaska
“That’s
always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone
because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color
instead of taste.”
— John
Green, Paper Town
