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I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

- John Green
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I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit.

I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.

When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on this trip through emotions and through various forms of intellectual engagement.

You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.

There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like 'Angry Birds' as possible. But I think that's a terrible idea.

Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating.

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.

I'm a very introverted person. Nothing that's happened has changed that, but one of the reasons I write for teens is it's a real privilege to have a seat at the table in the lives of young people when they're figuring out what matters to them.

I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come.

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I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.