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Don't be afraid of growing up and changing and getting used to these newer versions of yourself and becoming more comfortable sharing those versions of yourself with the people in your life, even people who knew you when you were younger.
Becky Albertalli
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I guess I feel it's funny to be looked to for advice on writing when I am still taking in so much from other people.
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'Simon' was such a charmed experience.
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I am a psychologist. That's my training.
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From a plot perspective, what I finally found for my touchstone was that I consider 'Upside' to be a loose telling of Jane Austen's 'Emma,' or 'Clueless.'
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There are so many kinds of normal.
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It's really important to me to follow the kinds of conversations that happen around diversity and representation and writing inclusive books.
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Most people don't seem to know that I am Jewish.
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I lived in the D.C. area for eight years.
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You have this idea that Hollywood is all about making money and is very impersonal. But 'Love, Simon' is such a passion project for director Greg Berlanti.
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'Simon' was always a word-of-mouth book. When it came out in 2015, I don't know that anybody thought that 'Simon' could be mainstream. Publisher Harper Collins loved it in-house, but it wasn't a lead title. Nobody is more surprised than me that it's a film. It's the little book that could.
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One of the things that 'Love, Simon' is doing that hasn't been done before is it's a gay teen rom-com with a mainstream wide release and the backing of a studio that previous gay rom-coms have not had. I'm really excited by that.
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