
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880-1956)
Robert Emmet Sherwoodwas an American playwright and screenwriter.
He is the author of Waterloo Bridge, Idiot’s Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, There Shall Be No Night, and The Best Years of Our Lives.
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Robert Emmet Sherwoodwas an American playwright and screenwriter.
He is the author of Waterloo Bridge, Idiot’s Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, There Shall Be No Night, and The Best Years of Our Lives. He was a screenwriter on the adapted films Rebecca and The Bishop’s Wife.
He received the Pulitzer Prize for Dramaand a Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1948).
To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.
American writer
We all come from our own little planets. That’s why we’re all different. That’s what makes life interesting.
American writer
He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn’t he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts.
American writer