Goodreads Quote of the Day for Tuesday
The idea came to me complete from start to finish – a most unusual occurrence, as any writer will tell you, for ordinarily a story has to be struggled with, changed around and mixed up.
On December 20, 1946, the classic Christmas film It’s a Wonderful Life had its New York premiere. The film was based on a short story called The Greatest Gift by Philip Van Doren Stern, an American writer and historian who initially printed the story himself when he couldn’t find a publisher and sent it out as a Christmas card. The idea for it, he said, had come to him in a dream.
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