Michael Fleming

It could be a silver linings paycheck.

Matthew Quick, author of the novel-turned-Oscar-nominated Silver Linings Playbook, has sold screen rights to his upcoming book, The Good Luck of Right Now, to DreamWorks. Michael Fleming broke the news on Deadline.com yesterday. Quick, who quit his job as a teacher at Haddonfield High to try his hand at a writing career, typed Silver Linings Playbook on his MacBook, camped out and jobless in his in-laws’ basement in central Massachusetts.

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