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An Open Letter To My Favorite Author

To all those people who have a favorite author and never knew what to tell them, this is for you.

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An Open Letter To My Favorite Author

Dear John Green,

First off, let me just say thank you. Thank you for giving me the inspiration to write. To write for myself, to write for school and to write for others. I will always cherish all of your work. Every word that you have ever written is stored somewhere in my brain, even if it is filled with other things like information for school. All of my favorite quotes, characters and places came from your finger tips. I have read hundreds of books before—reading is one of the most important things to me. Reading is a place to just escape the craziness of life or the craziness of your thoughts and just become someone else. Maybe its the main character, maybe its even the mom; but you become something.

When I first read "Looking For Alaska," I was in awe. It is still, hands down, my favorite book I have ever read. It is one of those books that you see a little bit of yourself in everyone. You make our emotions turn by the quotes you used and the situations that you created. And to see another one of my favorite books get turned into a major motion picture is something that I will never forget. I will never forget sitting in the audience and just waiting for the movie to start, seeing your story come to life right in front of me. Knowing the order in which everything happens and knowing what parts were changed and when a line was said by a different character than in the book, I knew it all. Don't get me wrong, that definitely could be a bit obsessive, but I didn't care. It meant too much to me.

Besides you being my favorite author, you are one of my favorite role models. You are always looking out for others, especially from other countries. You always are looking for ways to help others, and I could not be happier that someone could be so respectful to everyone. I have never seen you tweet or post anything about yourself; it is always about others. So thank you for being someone who I look up to and inspire to be like everyday. I could not have gotten the confidence to publish my writing without you.

Sincerely,

Your Biggest Reader,

Paige

P.S. Thank you for the all of the history crash course videos, you helped me pass class!

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