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I live in Orlando (actually Winter Park but what’s the di...e this has been said many times but I felt the need to say it.
Dr. Jefferson is indeed based on Dr. Philip Philips , for whom half of Orlando is named. (Dr. Philips had a legit medical degree from Columbia University, though.) I grew up in Audubon Park (on L...
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Why isn’t there an “Only If You Finished This Is Not Tom” Tumblr?
Because no one's ever finished it. (...including me.)
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Why wasn’t Q in band with Radar and Ben?
I liked the idea that he really had no built-in social network (in the old-fashioned sense of the phrase), that he was friends with Ben and Radar but separated from them for large swaths of time ...
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Is there going to be a movie or not?!
No, probably not. The people who worked at the studio that optioned Paper Towns and paid me to write the screenplay were not particularly pleased with my first draft, and they really hated my r...
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Out of all of your characters, I honestly think that Ben is... the main character. Is there any specific reason you do this?
Well, I think people who narrate stories tend to be naturally a bit introspective, because the rest of people are busy out, like, living their lives, rather than obsessively trying to chronicle l...
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At the party when Q goes to talk with Lacey in the bathtub ...on really threw me for a loop . A visual aid would be helpful.
In the screenplay I wrote, Lacey and Q make out in that scene. But anyway, I imagined one of those scoop-necked cotton tops with relatively narrow straps, I think. The pleasure of writing from ...
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While reading Paper towns, I just couldn’t help but think...p graduation a way to show that he is not close to his family.
I mean, bear in mind that he thinks this girl is going to die. If I were like, "You can either go to your graduate or potentially keep someone from dying," you would probably choose the latt...
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Does Dr. Jefferson Jefferson change his name to “Dr.” d...d reading the novel for the fourth time and just realized that
Well, I wanted to write--as I often do--about the relationship between given identities and chosen identities. When you're a teenager, you have to make a lot of decisions about which of your gi...
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So Bluefin doesn’t actually exist?
That really depends on how you define "actually" and "exist."
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if Margo is so concerned about fairly capitalizing all words, why doesn’t she capitalize letters in the middle of words?
I think she is concerned about the words, not the letters. Maybe I should've had her be concerned about the letters. That would've been a little more metaphorically resonant. MY BAD!
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First off, Paper Towns is by far my favorite of your books ...o do such a seemingly selfish act because you felt you had to.
Well, sure, yes. Like, there is a lot of talk among people about not participating in evil systems and not wanting to be fully integrated into a social order that has a deformed conscience. (We...
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What happened after the end of the book?
You guys.
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In Paper Towns one of your characters claims that Tomorrowl...f the lands in Magic Kingdom. Do you stand by this belief too?
I hate all of Disney World equally. I hate every square inch of it, except for 1. The Hall of Presidents, which I merely dislike. and 2. The Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse, which I have mi...
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do you see your female characters as Manic Pixie Dream Girls?
No, but I'm not a 16-year-old boy. I mean, I don't think I romanticize the life of any human being, except maybe Steven Gerrard. I look at Kristen Stewart or Britney Spears or One Direction o...
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I’ve been re-reading PT for an english assignment and I c...he way Q view Margo, but I can’t help but wonder. Thank you.
Yeah, that was purposeful, but this is a great example of books belonging to their readers and how it doesn't really matter whether it was purposeful. Let's say that I included that by accident...
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how do you think of someone as a human being? It said that ...ey want to with any words they choose. now I’m just rambling
Right, so when you imagine yourself, you think of yourself as a massively complex individual. You may hate yourself or like yourself or whatever, but you certainly think of yourself as fully huma...
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It feels weird to clarify your answer (as like I’m obviou... Bat Mitzvah money for her escapades, so yeah, she’s Jewish.
Aha! So she IS Jewish!
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Speaking of names, Myrna Mountweazel?
Myrna because it sounded good with Mountweazel. Mountweazel because of reasons .
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any particular Reason margo has Weird Capitalization?
Well, she says herself that she feels like traditional rules of capitalization are unfair to the words in the middle. Margo is super concerned with the way that people's conformity and lack of in...
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All of the streets in Q’s neighborhood are named after th... you did this? Was it connected to anything else in the story?
It was just meant to indicate the lack of creativity and sameness in the design of Q and Margo's neighborhood, which is part of what Margo finds so completely unbearable.
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