Puzo 1920–1999 · Coppola b. 1939 · screenwriters, The Godfather Part II (1974)
Mario Puzo wrote the 1969 novel The Godfather and co-wrote the screenplays for Coppola’s first two Godfather films; Francis Ford Coppola directed them and shared the writing credit. The pair won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Godfather Part II. Which of the two actually put this particular sentence on the page is not documented — the credit is joint, and neither has publicly claimed the line.