Sidney Howard
Sidney Coe Howard was an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925 and a posthumous Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay in 1940 for the screenplay for Gone with the Wind. This was the first time a posthumous nominee for any Oscar won the award. He had been twice previously nominated for his adaptations of the Sinclair Lewis novels
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“He’s a pagan! I’m an artist! We’re naturally sympathetic!”
Sidney Howard
“Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes”
Sidney Howard
“Truth has to be credible or it makes as much trouble as any lie!”
Sidney Howard
“One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. ”
Sidney Howard