#John green

[tavolgisvist]

If you listen to Colin Hanton, he seems to think when Paul McCartney arrived, Paul definitely had ideas of making his career in music, whereas the rest of us were just having fun basically.

(Rod Davis, 2008, interview with Gary James)

But if it hadn’t been for me, we wouldn’t have got on top. I decided when I was a kid that I was going to be on the top, the veddy, veddy toppermost of the poppermost, and I made it. I was the one who always gave more, did more, pushed more. I was the engine. Paul didn’t have that dream. I had to instill it in him. I know you think this sounds terribly vain, but it’s true and I am vain about it.

(John Lennon in Dakota Days by John Green, 1983)

[weaponsofmassdisruption]

Not what I expected coming from John Green

[ayo-edebiri]

Oh my god!!???

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

My new book Everything Is Tuberculosis comes out March 18th.

I'm signing 100,000 copies of the first printing. You can preorder a signed copy here or wherever books are sold.

This has been the most fulfilling (and heartbreaking) writing experience of my life so far. I really hope you enjoy the little book that resulted from it.

[feathersof-hope]

In June 2021 I was reading my favorite book, The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green, in the psych ward, feeling completely hopeless and alone.

Today I was reading my favorite book, The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green, in the waiting room to go to the first doctor visit on the road to start testosterone.

I know how it feels to think that you would be better off dead, but today I also know that:

"You can't see the future coming-not the terrors, for sure, but you also can't see the wonders that are coming, the moments of light-soaked joy that await each of us"

[surqrised]

I’ve always liked quiet people: You never know if they’re dancing in a daydream or if they’re carrying the weight of the world.

John Green, Looking for Alaska

[99legcentipede]

woa... i didnt know he was so old...

[thoughtkick]

I’m so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.

John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

[asymptotic-rage]

Imagining trying to explain to my 12-year-old self that John Green is your favorite non-fiction author and Hank Green is your favorite fiction author

[dr4gme]

About wocwog HJ. I love him. He's so raw, and there's so much pain and rage.

[aconfusedgoose]

AND DAN AND PHIL ARE BACK???

I started this year making a meme about John Green being back and I thought that would be the wildest thing to happen this year... Clearly I was wrong. I feel like the universe is just confused about what year it is... I'm in my mid 20s now and I don't need to be going through this again.

[beautifulbookishdisaster]

Susan Sontag wrote that "Depression is melancholy minus its charms." For me, living with depression was at once utterly boring and absolutely excruciating.

John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed (Harvey)

[the-sand-guardian]

last night i dreamt that elon musk was getting bullied so hard on Twitter (due to the connoreatspants stream) that he took down the entire website and sold it to john green for $80. Because he deleted the entire thing and destroyed everything, when you went to the website it just had a banner of John saying "Sorry about him, twitter will be back soon" and promoting his new book

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

Arw you really the author John Green? The same person who wrote The Fault in Our Stars and Looking for Alaska?

Yes, but I published one of those books 19 (?!?!?!) years ago and the other 12 (!?!?!?!?) years ago. What have I been up to since then?

My brother Hank and I started Good.store, which delivers high-quality socks, coffee, and soap to your home and donates 100% of its profit to charity. Through good store, we've raised over $7,500,000 to support efforts to radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone, where as recently as 2019, one in seventeen women could expect to die in pregnancy or childbirth.

(In fact, technically I am here on tumblr as an unpaid intern for the awesome coffee club, which you should really sign up for if you like ethically sourced coffee that tastes delicious and doesn't enrich billionaires.)

I wrote the novel Turtles All the Way Down and then had a little existential crisis and wrote a nonfiction book called The Anthropocene Reviewed, the latter of which is my first book for adults and my first attempt to write as myself.

I helped produce made a movie adaptation (streaming now on Max!) of Turtles all the Way Down.

I helped raise my kids and supported my spouse as she wrote her book You Are An Artist and created a PBS show about art called The Art Assignment.

I ran the educational media company Complexly and the merch company dftba.com while my brother had cancer.

I bought around 2% of a fourth-tier English football team called AFC Wimbledon. Wimbledon are different from most football clubs because they are owned by their fans, each of whom gets one vote in the club's leadership regardless of how much money they put into the club.

I became obsessed with tuberculosis, the world's deadliest infectious disease (it will kill over a million people this year despite being curable), and how TB both exemplifies and reinforces human-built structures of injustice, which is the subject of a book I'm writing that will come out next year.