I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go wherever she has a job. All basements look the same, so I can write from whatever basement I happen to be living in. John Green
Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer. John Green
It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions. John Green
One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer. John Green
I love making YouTube videos. I love Tumblr, I love Twitter. I love talking with people I find interesting about stuff I find interesting, and the Internet is a great way to do that. John Green
My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy. John Green
We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.' John Green
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance. E.B.White
The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it. E.B.White
I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright. E.B.White
All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days. E.B.White
The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it. E.B.White
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor. E.B.White
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad. E.B.White
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. E.B.White
The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative. E.B.White
It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members. E.B.White