![]() ![]() The phrase “Paper Towns” is used in three different ways in the three different parts of the novel. Q: Which cover of Paper Towns do you prefer? * You could also argue that I was being fearful by not applying myself as completely as I could to my studies, for fear that my best still wouldn’t be very good. But the truth is a lot more complicated than that, and I wanted to explore that stuff. So you could argue that I was being bold and fearless* and that Todd was being ruled by his fear of poverty or failure or whatever. ![]() We were at McDonald’s, and I was talking about going out that night and trying to meet up with this girl I liked, and Todd was like, “I’m gonna stay home and do some work.”Īnd I told him, “Carpe diem,” and he said, “If I only think about maximizing the pleasure of today, how am I ever going to get into med school?” When I was writing the book, I kept thinking of a conversation I had with my high school best friend, who was extremely ambitious and bright and also somewhat poor. And I also wanted to think similarly about fearlessness. More generally, I was really interested in thinking about the ways that fear works-all the ways in which it can be helpful, and also all the ways in which it can be destructive. ![]() Well, Q is a very anxious person, and his life is circumscribed by that anxiety, but not always in unhealthy ways. ![]()
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