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What I would say is, don’t even look at a screen. Get a notebook and pen. For me, I always prefer to start writing with a pen. For me, the blank page is just a possibility. It’s like, "What can I feel on this page?" That’s really exciting. But if I look at the blank page, it feels like pressure. With a notebook, you can scribble down whatever you want and you can move things around the page. It’s never really gone. You can always find it again. It feels a little less free for me on a computer. I guess that would be my tip. Just start really organically with paper and a pen.

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As quoted in "Jenny Han on 'To All the Boys: Always and Forever,' Saying Goodbye to the Netflix Franchise, & Surreal On-Set Moments" in Collider (14 February 2021)

year
2021

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“What I would say is, don’t even look at a screen. Get a note…” Jenny Han. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-D6E0C3E229. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/d6e0c3e229

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I think that with a book, you can excavate a story so much more because you're really in the character's head and you can go into much deeper detail. In a movie, what you might spend pages describing, you can do that in a flash. But there's also a feeling that you have to really streamline a movie too so it stays on the right track. And I think I would say that there are definitely changes made, but I think that to me, the spirit of the story is there. And that was what was most important to me, was just that people walked away with the same feeling that they had when they read the books, which is just, I hope, feeling a warm-hearted, cozy feeling.
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