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It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 4
Film Director
Screenwriter
University Teacher
New London
Connecticut
Geoffrey Shawn Fletcher
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