John Green

13 John Green Quotes That Speak To Our Soul

The man is a literary magician.

Monday, August 17, 2015 - 11:45

On Monday (August 17) John Green's latest book-to-film adaptation Paper Towns hits cinemas in the UK.

And while we're ridiculously excited to see Cara Delevingne make her proper blockbuster debut (American accent and all), we have to admit that seeing our favourite quotes from the book being translated onto the big screen is slightly more amazing.

So to celebrate the movie's release, here are 13 John Green quotes that literally deserve their own films.

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From Paper Towns

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From The Fault in Our Stars

Everything You Need To Know About Paper Towns Author John Green

John was born in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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He’s married to fellow creative person Sarah Urist, and has been since 2006.

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He’s 37 years old, but only for a little while longer! He turns 38 on August 24.

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He has a younger brother called Hank (they look pretty darn similar)...

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But you can probably recognise John and Hank from their YouTube channel VlogBrothers! They have over 2.6 million subscribers.

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Somehow, John still makes time to vlog on the channel too. Check the videos out if you want to see some behind the scenes peeks at Paper Towns and The Fault in Our Stars!

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John's written books other than Paper Towns (obvs)...

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For example, TFiOS, Will Grayson, Will Grayson, An Abundance Of Katherines, Looking For Alaska... phew.

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Looking For Alaska even won a Printz Award (which is a fancy prize that recognises amazing teen books)

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John was reported to be working on a new book called The Racket, but has since shot down those rumours, saying that while he has been writing, it doesn't have a title yet.

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Crazy fact of the day: John and Hank Green CREATED VIDCON back in 2010 – what in the actual?

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He and brother Hank started a charity called Project For Awesome, and the main aim of it was to ‘decrease worldsuck’. Fair.

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He’s obsessed with football and even has a separate Twitter account for his usual sports rants (@sportswithjohn).

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John filmed a cameo in TFiOS but it got cut – the directed told him his acting was ‘perfectly adequate’ though, so that's nice.

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He thinks the film version ending of TFiOS is better than the book!

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He’s a New York Times Best Selling author, which has nothing to do with this picture of him with Snoop Dogg, but it makes us happy.

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Before making it as an author, John was going to become an Episcopal priest. Random.

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He and his wife have two kids together, called Henry and Alice.

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John set three of his novels in places where he was raised. TFiOS was based in Indianapolis, Paper Towns in Orlando, and Looking For Alaska’s Culver Creek was inspired by his Indian Springs School in Alabama.

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According to Nat Wolff, John's super emotional, and ‘cries over a good meal’.

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He has an educational YouTube channel called Crash Course... Seriously, could he be any more productive with his time?

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It took John over a decade (around 13 years, actually) to finish writing TFiOS. That's some serious procrastination.

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John was named one of TIME’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2014. Shailene Woodley, who starred in TFiOS, wrote the essay for his entry, calling him an ‘author and teen whisperer’. Accurate.

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