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John Green Wants You to Pay Attention to Your Attention

ReThinking

CHAPTER

Rethinking Bad Decisions

John Green: I spent almost a year writing a novel about high schoolers stranded on a desert island. He says he put it away for two weeks, then reread it and realized that there was just nothing in it. The Fault in Our Stars had also been a book that he'd tried to write many times starting in 2000 or 2001 when he was only 20 years old. green: "I'm really glad that I didn't publish the Desert Island novel and I'm glad that I wrote The Fault In Our Stars"

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