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That Time William Goldman Almost Gave Up Trying to be a Writer
Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“I graduated from Oberlin College in fifty-two, did the Army for two years, then went to graduate school at Columbia University for two years. It was then the summer of 1956. I was twenty-four, and I’d always wanted to be a writer. I’d shown no signs of talent. I got the worst grades in class.”—William […]
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