thehummingbirdsmatter asked:
p.s. how’d you make that sweet meme? What is the web site you use for meme making? I need to get back to making coffee memes after sharing cute pics of my new dog.
i have learned more about star wars from one singular chapter of turtles all the way down by john green discussing whether or not a human being in a relationship with a wookie is weird or not than i ever have from any other part of my life
I have accomplished something with my life.
onewordaway asked:
Which book are you the most proud of writing?
The novel I’ve been writing for the last couple years has taken more guts than all the others put together–so I guess that one. May never finish it or publish it, but proud of myself for trying.
Today, several people have asked me to buy tumblr.
- You may have been misinformed about my compensation package. I am but a humble unpaid intern for a coffee company that donates its profit to charity.
- I would pay you all of my money and take out a second mortgage on my house and pay you all of THAT money just for the pleasure of not owning tumblr.
DOES ANYONE ELSE FEEL THE BLINDING WHITE LIGHT OF DREAD AND DESPERATE SADNESS ENCROACHING IN FROM THE EDGES OF YOUR VERY SELF?
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skylerwitherspoon asked:
your video the other day got me thinking--do you ever write poetry? could you see yourself one day writing a poetry book?
Sometimes I write little haikus! But just for my own amusement. Here’s a recent one:
i went ahead and
spent the last day of summer
in the house worried.
chiefwerewolfheart asked:
Hey mr coffee intern, i was just wondering if youd care to tell why LITERALLY NONE OF YOUR PROTAGONISTS HAVE ANY SIBLINGS? Is it to make hank mad?
Well, a few reasons:
- It is an inside joke with my brother.
- I think in the future, a great many children will not have siblings. I do not really try to write for the future, but it is something I think about occasionally.
- When I was writing novels (I haven’t published one in six years and counting), I was very interested in certain relational dynamics, and siblings just never quite made the list for me. Part of this is because when I was a teenager, I spent SO MUCH time thinking about my friends and my romantic relationships, and relatively little time thinking about my sibling relationship.
- I like to have very few character in a novel. i think there are, like, seven people with names in The Fault in Our Stars. I was always after the smallest possible canvas, if that makes sense.
“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
(Like many things tumblr said I said, I never said or wrote this.)
This (a quote from my book The Anthropocene Reviewed) was my overall attitude to the world until I was about 24. But it is no longer the way I look at the world.
It turns out that there is pleasure in simply giving what you have, even if–as is generally the case–what you have proves insufficient.
All my books have so many shortcomings. I am constantly running up against the limits of my talents. In other ways, they are good. Whatever is good in them comes from my willingness to go deep and be honest even when it is hard.
When I think of my work, it is hard to think of anything but its insufficiency. And yet, it’s valuable to give as much as I can, whenever I can–not to “fulfill my potential” or whatever, but because we are only here for a little while, and there is more meaning in possibly cringe but earnest effort than there is in the cold pleasure of ironic disdain.