The Fault in Our Stars
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- Episode: UPDATE: John Green’s Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride | People I (Mostly) Admire
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireSo, after I wrote The Fault in Our Stars, I spent over a year working on a desert island novel, a novel where six young people were stranded on a desert island.
- Episode: UPDATE: John Green’s Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride | People I (Mostly) Admire
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireAnd there is this real meta experience where sometimes a sick kid will ask me what happens after the end of The Fault in Our Stars, and I'll have to say, like Peter Van Houten, I also don't know.
- Episode: UPDATE: John Green’s Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride | People I (Mostly) Admire
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireAnd so there was this strange meta experience as a result of writing The Fault in Our Stars.
- Episode: UPDATE: John Green’s Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride | People I (Mostly) Admire
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireI didn't, of course, imagine that I was going to be inundated with this level of fan mail and this amount of, you know, people asking me what happens after the end of the book, which is what the main character in The Fault in Our Stars wants to know from the author.
- Episode: UPDATE: John Green’s Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride | People I (Mostly) Admire
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireI thought that would be sort of a funny joke; I mean, I imagined that The Fault in Our Stars was going to be my least successful novel commercially, and so I imagined that as kind of a joke for the people who were really familiar with me who would get a lot of the sort of subtle references between Van Houten and myself.
- Episode: UPDATE: John Green’s Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride | People I (Mostly) Admire
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireBut by the time I wrote The Fault in Our Stars, I was conscious of the fact that I was going to be read into that novel because I'd been friends with a young person who died of cancer, because I'd worked closely as a chaplain with young people who were dying.
- Episode: UPDATE: John Green’s Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride | People I (Mostly) Admire
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireSo one of the storylines in The Fault in Our Stars is this author who hates his readers. Did you feel a lot of pressure not to be that author?
- Episode: UPDATE: John Green’s Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride | People I (Mostly) Admire
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireYou've been cranking out books every year, every other year, and then after The Fault in Our Stars, there was a five-year gap before your next book, Turtles All the Way Down.
- Episode: UPDATE: John Green’s Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride | People I (Mostly) Admire
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireHey, so I went back and reread The Fault in Our Stars last week; I had read it many years ago.
- Episode: UPDATE: John Green’s Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride | People I (Mostly) Admire
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireSo you said it wasn't your dream to write bestsellers, but then you made the mistake of writing The Fault in Our Stars, which turned out to be one of the biggest books of all time.
- Episode: UPDATE: John Green’s Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride | People I (Mostly) Admire
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireHe's the author of The Fault in Our Stars, which began as a novel for young adults and ended up a cultural phenomenon.
- Episode: 132. Suleika Jaouad’s Survival Mechanisms | People I (Mostly) Admire
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireHave you read The Fault in Our Stars?
- Episode: 132. Suleika Jaouad’s Survival Mechanisms | People I (Mostly) Admire
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireIt was during that time that I got my hands on a copy of The Fault in Our Stars, and I think I read it about half a dozen times.
- Episode: John Green's Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 92
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireHe's the author of The Fault in Our Stars, which began as a novel for young adults and ended up a cultural phenomenon.
- Episode: John Green's Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 92
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireI mean, there have been so many after 'The Fault in Our Stars.'
- Episode: John Green's Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 92
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireI remember highlighting those six words and control-xing and putting them in a new Word document, and that became 'The Fault in Our Stars.'
- Episode: John Green's Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 92
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireAfter I wrote 'The Fault in Our Stars,' I spent over a year working on a desert island novel, where these six young people were stranded on a desert island.
- Episode: John Green's Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 92
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireThere is this real, meta experience where sometimes a sick kid will ask me what happens after the end of The Fault in Our Stars, and I'll have to say, like Peter Van Houten, 'I also don't know.'
- Episode: John Green's Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 92
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireThere was this strange, meta experience as a result of writing The Fault in Our Stars.
- Episode: John Green's Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 92
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireI didn't, of course, imagine that I was going to be inundated with this level of fan mail and this amount of people asking me what happens after the end of the book, which is what the main character in The Fault in Our Stars wants to know from the author.
- Episode: John Green's Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 92
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireI mean, I imagined that The Fault in Our Stars was going to be my least successful novel commercially, and so I imagined that kind of as a joke for the people who were really familiar with me and would get a lot of the subtle references between Manhattan and myself.
- Episode: John Green's Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 92
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireSo one of the storylines in The Fault in Our Stars is this [____] author who hates his readers. Did you feel a lot of pressure not to be that [____] author?
- Episode: John Green's Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 92
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireYou've been cranking out books every year, every other year, and then after The Fault in Our Stars, there was a five-year gap before your next book, Turtles All the Way Down.
- Episode: John Green's Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 92
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireHey, I went back and re-read The Fault in Our Stars last week. I had read it many years ago; my oldest girls were young teens when it came out, and I used to read lots of young adult novels to have something to talk about.
- Episode: John Green's Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 92
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireSo you said it wasn't your dream to write bestsellers, but then you made the mistake of writing The Fault in Our Stars, which turned out to be one of the biggest books of all time: Time Magazine's fiction book of 2012.
- Episode: Jane Goodall Changed the Way We See Animals. She’s Not Done | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 91
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireIn two weeks, we’ll be back with John Green; he’s the author of The Fault in Our Stars and a YouTube sensation. I was just distraught; I was like, ‘I can’t believe I wasted a year of my life.’ There was nothing; there was nothing that could be saved except there was this one sentence.