Adi AlsaidWhat's so great about writing?" "You can make anything true
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The quote, "What's so great about writing?" is a reference to a scene from the film The Graduate in which Dustin Hoffman's character asks a college student this very question. He was joined by the actor who plays the father in the film, who told Hoffman his life dream is to be a writer. In the scene, the two men are discussing whether it's possible to make what is true into a story.
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