John Green Quotes

We Have A Bad Habit Of Seeing Books As Sort Of Cheaply Made Movies Where The Words Do Nothing But Create Visual Narratives In Our Heads.
So Too Often What Passes For Literary Criticism Is "I Couldn't Picture That Guy", Or "I Liked That Part", Or "this Part Shouldn't Have Happened." That Is, We've Left Language So Far Behind That Sometimes We Judge Quality Solely Based On A Story's Actions.
So We Can Appreciate A Novel That Constructs Its Conflicts Primarily Through Plot - The Layered Ambiguity Of A Fatal Car Accident Caused By A Vehicle Owned By Gatsby But Driven By Someone Else, For Instance. But In This Image-drenched World, Sometimes We Struggle To Appreciate And Celebrate Books Where The Quality Arises Not Exclusively From Plot But Also From The Language Itself.

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