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Daniel Pyne

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Oak Park, Illinois, The United States
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Daniel Pyne wanders restlessly between prose fiction and screenwriting. He is the author of Twentynine Palms A Hole in the Ground Owned by a Liar, Fifty Mice, Catalina Eddy, and his latest work, Water Memory, debuting February 1, 2021. Among Pyne's film credits are Backstabbing For Beginners, the remake of The Manchurian Candidate, Pacific Heights, Any Given Sunday and Fracture. Pyne's television work spans from the seminal hipster cop show Miami Vice to Amazon TV's longest running drama, Bosch. Pyne has a BA from Stanford University, where he toiled in economics but studied writing under Stegner fellows Chuck Kinder and John L‟heureux; he has an MFA from UCLA's Graduate School of Film, where he taught a seminar in screenwriting for a coupl ...more

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“Reduce your stress. Move to Iowa.”
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“To lift a gun from lap to temple takes only a moment. It happens so fast it’s done before you know it, and you’re wiping the warm bits and pieces of a lost cause off your cheeks while salty tears fall.”
― Daniel Pyne, Water Memory
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“The truth is, we are nothing. Atoms gathered temporarily, in space and time, destined to be released again, a scuff on the shine of eternity.”
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