Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a …

Ian Mcewan
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Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot. ✨ Ian McEwan: By the Book. Interview, www.nytimes.com. December 6, 2012.
Cecilia wondered, as she sometimes did when she met a man for the first time, if this was the one she was going to marry, and whether it was this particular moment she would remember for the rest of … ▶
The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. ✨ Ian McEwan (2010). Atonement, p.76, Random House
No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.
I’ll wait for you. Come back. The words were not meaningless, but they didn’t touch him now. It was clear enough - one person waiting for another was like an arithmetical sum, and just as empty of em … ▶

Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.

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