Editing William Goldman (section)

===''Adventures in the Screen Trade'' and the "Leper Period"===
After several of his screenplays were not filmed, Goldman found himself in less demand as a screenwriter.  He published a memoir about his professional life in Hollywood, ''[[Adventures in the Screen Trade]]'' (1983), which summed up the entertainment industry in the opening sentence of the book, "Nobody knows anything."{{Sfn|Goldman|1983|p=39}}<ref>{{Cite news |last=Williams |first=Christian |date=February 12, 2006 |title=If You're Out By Monday, Never Ask Why |work=Chicago Tribune |location=Chicago, IL |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/la-tm-rules7feb12,0,3069888.story |access-date=July 11, 2011 |quote=I had heard that the rules were different in Hollywood, where, as the screenwriter William Goldman famously put it, 'nobody knows anything.'}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Turan |first=Kenneth |date=January 17, 2007 |title=What dark horse will be the next 'Sunshine'? |work=Chicago Tribune |location=Chicago, IL |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/zap-et-sundance17jan17,0,5602793.story |access-date=July 11, 2011 |quote=...it becomes more apparent every year that William Goldman's great rule of studio film-making applies to the independent world as well: Nobody knows anything.}}</ref>

He focused on novels: ''[[Control (novel)|Control]]'' (1982), ''[[The Silent Gondoliers]]'' (1983), ''[[The Color of Light]]'' (1984), ''[[Heat (Goldman novel)|Heat]]'' (1985), and ''[[Brothers (Goldman novel)|Brothers]]'' (1986). The latter, a sequel to ''Marathon Man'', was Goldman's last published novel.