“The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.”
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John Michael Green is an American author and YouTuber. His books have more than 50 million copies in print worldwide, including The Fault in Our Stars (2012), which is one of the best-selling books of all time. Green's rapid rise to fame and idiosyncratic voice are credited with creating a major shift in the young adult fiction market. Green is also well known for his work in online video, most no…
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I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.
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2026· 37 entries
“I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
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“Sometimes you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read that book.”
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“But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. (Cancer is also a side effect of dying. Almost everything is, really.)”
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“This is why we call people exes, I guess -- because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. It's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. It's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that. The X is a diagram of two paths.”
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“Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are.”
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“Tiny Cooper is not the world's gayest person, and he is not the world's largest person, but I believe he may be the world's largest person who is really, really gay, and also the world's gayest person who is really, really large.”
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“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep; Slowly, and then all at once.”
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“God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will.”
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“I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.”
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“How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?”
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“'I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.'”
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“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
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“Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape—the world or the end of it?”
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“Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.”
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“TB has become the organizing principle of my professional life over the last five years.”
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“This is my first attempt to write directly about the kind of mental illness that has affected my life since childhood, so while the story is fictional, it is also quite personal.”
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Published video “CHOKEHOLD! #RDR2 #reddeadredemtion2 #chokehold”.
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Published video “Homework help”.
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Published video “MY BOOK IS FINALLY HERE”.
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Published video “Questing for Progress | Red Dead Redemption 2 with My Morals #22”.
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Published video “Horseless and Afraid #rdr2 #reddeadredemption2”.
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Published video “The opening of my new book Hollywood, Ending”.
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Published video “Surviving the Ambush | Red Dead Redemption 2 with My Morals #20”.
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Published video “The price of a John Green signature”.
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“I should sign some gas pumps.”
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“Shout out to @barnesandnoble.com for charging $2 less for the signed edition of Hollywood, Ending than the unsigned edition, thereby making my signature worth negative two dollars. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hollywood-...”
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Published video “Horse Crasher #rdr2 #reddeadredemption2 #horsemanship”.
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“Hi. The Toronto tour date is sold out. Thank you, Ontario! Tix still available in most cities, though! hollywoodendingbook.com”
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Published video “The joy of being made fun of in a loving way”.
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“Join us on August 3 for the Esther Day Virtual Party! We'll be celebrating love, friendship, and community, and I'll be joining Sarah Urist Green for a special Esther Day edition of Dear Hank & John. You can learn more and reserve your free ticket here: tinyurl.com/EstherDay2026”
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“the constant anxiety of having a book coming out in 54 days.”
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“The New York City stop of the Hollywood, Ending tour is now on general sale, meaning that ALL cities (except Chicago) are now on sale. I'm so excited to see y'all on tour. hollywoodendingbook.com”
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“New York City HOLLYWOOD, ENDING tickets are now available for presale. If prompted for a password, use dftba. us.atgtickets.com/events/john-...”
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“Tickets to the New York City show for the Hollywood, Ending tour will go on presale TOMORROW MORNING at 10 AM eastern. Use the password dftba to access the presale. hollywoodendingbook.com p.s. Toronto, get your tickets soon; close to selling out!”
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“I'll allow pitbull moving forward, but I draw the line at "nutterbutter," which over 200 people recommended as a word today.”
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“YEZTUGO (lenacapavir) is a new injectable form of long-acting PrEP that only requires 2 doses per year to prevent HIV infection, and 3 million people are expected to get access to the drug by 2028 via The Global Fund. Sounds great, right? (1/5)”
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2025· 1 entry
Through Crash Course Books, a new imprint of Penguin Young Readers that is an extension of the Crash Course YouTube channel
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2023· 1 entry
Green attended, and briefly spoke at, a high-level United Nations meeting on tuberculosis
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2022· 1 entry
“I think basically all criticisms of my work are correct and justifiable other than the most popular one,”
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2021· 2 entries
Scott Neumyer of Shondaland wrote that, "Green may have made his name by writing fiction (and for good reason), but this first foray into nonfiction is his most mature, compelling, and beautifully written book yet
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And over $100,000 from that year's Pizzamas, Partners in Health received over $1 million during the 2022 Project for Awesome
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2020· 3 entries
On Disney+ Hotstar and was met with mainly positive reviews
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After having been initially scheduled in November 2019, but was later postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in India
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Which has over 2 million followers and 48 million views as of October 2022
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2019· 5 entries
Let It Snow was adapted into a film of the same name by Netflix
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“I had noticed over the past couple of years that my attention had become more fractured. I found it harder to lose myself in a book, for instance, without feeling the urge to check my phone or open my laptop.”
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“s branch of Partners In Health, as part of an initiative to raise $25 million over the following five years. The goal of the initiative is to help fight maternal mortality, specifically in the country”
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Mental Floss brought its YouTube production in-house and ceased using Green as a host
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Through which Green asserts that the disease is not primarily caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis anymore but by human choices
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2018· 11 entries
“Frankly this has been a terrible experience. You have all been so mean to me and so aggressive. I will not stand for it, and you will be hearing from my lawyer, the venerable Luigi Esq., soon.”
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“finally figured out how to use the CW function. Thanks Eve!”
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“This place really is a mixed bag. Some of you are absolutely lovely, but others are as crude and aggressive as always. Ah, that's the perils of the internet, I guess.”
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“Sorry to let you all down, but yes - I know what "ligma" and "bofa" are already. And no - you're going to trick me into saying it.”
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“As I begin to pare down my internet usage (specifically on social media), I figured it would be best to get my foot in the door of emerging platforms like this. Twitter is a dumpster fire, sure - hopefully Mastodon can be my trashcan fire!”
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“Oh, hmm. It seems thumbnails don't work quite the same way here.”
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“A history of Crash Course: https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=1Q5cPfbmSD 8&feature=em-uploademail (re-posting this from Twitter!)”
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“Who are some of the best accounts to follow?”
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“heard all the hubbub about Mastodon from my friends over on Tumblr. I figured I'd come check it out for myself!”
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The Guardian: Hank Green: 'I used all my power to make YouTube powerful, good and strong'
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A notice was released by the China Film Administration for a project with a similar premise and the same writers and producers to the original remake, and in 2020, A Little Red Flower was released with no credit given to
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2017· 13 entries
The Guardian: Turtles All the Way Down by John Green review – dark and complex
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The Guardian: John Green: ‘Having OCD is an ongoing part of my life’
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The Guardian: Turtles All the Way Down by John Green review – a new modern classic
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And debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list
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It was announced that Green's fifth solo novel would be titled Turtles All the Way Down
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Green authorized a stage play adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars
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Green began a YouTube series titled "100 Days" in collaboration with his friend Chris Waters
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Several reviewers referenced a dismissive perception of Green's now very popular œuvre as "sad teen books", which had emerged since the success of The Fault in Our Stars
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“Boję się zapomnienia (...) Boję się tego niczym ślepiec ciemności.”
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“It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don't care if that mark is a scar.”
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“Rozmowa Hezel i Augustusa.”
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“Pocałunek Hezel i Gusa w Domu Anny Frank.”
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“Opis: rozmowa Margo i Quentina.”
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2016· 5 entries
The Guardian: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green - review
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The Guardian: John Green fights back against banning of Looking for Alaska
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The Guardian: Fault in Our Stars author John Green to make film about AFC Wimbledon
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Before becoming a permanent designated charity in every iteration of the fundraiser since 2018
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Green announced that Fox 2000 would be making a movie about the formation of AFC Wimbledon, a soccer team that he supports, and he would serve as a producer
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2015· 1 entry
Greg Ballard, the mayor of Indianapolis, proclaimed that that day would be "John Green Day" in his city
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2014· 4 entries
The Fault in Our Stars film was released, the first adaptation of one of Green's novels
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Sarah Urist Green launched The Art Assignment, a PBS and Complexly video series
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John and Hank began uploading videos to Vlogbrothers every weekday for two weeks during Pizzamas, and began selling more varied merchandise, including fan art of Pizza John printed on blankets, tote bags, and pizza-scent
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Are credited with creating a major shift in the young adult fiction market
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2013· 5 entries
Launched Subbable, a subscription-based crowdfunding platform that would enable donors to pledge a monthly sum to creators and receive perks in exchange
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Stated, "The kids I met [while working as a student chaplain] were funny and bright and angry and dark and just as human as anybody else
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As the "Wimbly Womblys", a fictionalized version of AFC Wimbledon
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And at his alma mater Kenyon College in May 2016
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Partners In Health received $50,000 as one of the community-chosen charities
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2012· 4 entries
Awarded Indiana Authors Awards (2012).
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The book reached The New York Times Best Seller list for children's paperbacks
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And 2013, John and Hank began celebrating an event called "Pizzamas" in which they sold merchandise, including t-shirts, featuring "Pizza John": a white outlined image of John sporting a thick mustache, originating from
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“Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.”
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2011· 2 entries
The Daily Dot named the Green brothers as the most important people on YouTube
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Green had a gaming series on YouTube where he played FIFA, first as the "Swoodilypoopers", a fictionalized version of Swindon Town F
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2010· 1 entry
The brothers launched VidCon as a conference for the online video community
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Edgar Awards for Paper Towns (2009).
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2008· 1 entry
With John Green later becoming a co-owner
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2007· 4 entries
John and his brother Hank began a video blog project called Brotherhood 2
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Became part of the early culture of YouTube as the modern content creator industry was born from the YouTube Partner Program
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And published three novels over the next three years: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances (2008, with Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle); his third solo novel, Paper Towns (2008); and Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010, w
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John and his brother Hank launched the Vlogbrothers YouTube channel, a series of vlogs submitted to one another on alternating weekdays; the videos spawned an active online-based community called Nerdfighteria and an ann
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Michael L. Printz Award for Looking for Alaska (2006).
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2005· 2 entries
To Paramount, which hired Josh Schwartz as writer and director
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While his then-fiancée Sarah Urist attended graduate school at Columbia University
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2001· 1 entry
Green was hired as an editorial assistant at the book review journal Booklist, later becoming a production editor
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1995· 1 entry
Graduating with a double major in English and religious studies in 2000
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1977· 2 entries
In Indianapolis, Indiana, to Mike and Sydney Green
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Born 1977-08-24.
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