Neil Simon Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

  Neil Simon

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  New York Times, March 24, 1985.

• Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.

  Neil Simon

  Writing, Hands, May

  Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

• Rewriting is when writing really gets to be fun. . . . In baseball you only get three swings and you're out. In rewriting, you get almost as many swings as you want and you know, sooner or later, you'll hit the ball.

  Neil Simon

  Baseball, Fun, Writing

• Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

  Neil Simon

  Writing, Like Being Alone, Meditation

• I don’t like writing for comedians. I like writing for actors. The best comedians are the best actors.

  Neil Simon

  Writing, Comedian, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I feel like writing about a time when I was probably, and think all of us are, the happiest before the obligations start in.

  Neil Simon

  Writing, Thinking, Obligation

• It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

  Neil Simon

  Writing, Dark, Giving

  Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

• [When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you're clearing a path and getting to the right place.

  Neil Simon

  Writing, Knives, Play

• I never write a play with an eye to film.

  Neil Simon

  Writing, Eye, Play

• The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.

  Neil Simon

  Book, Writing, Firsts

  Source: bookpage.com

• I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen.

  Neil Simon

  Writing, Play, Mind

  Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

• I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first six months, and I want the play to last 30 or 40 years. You write for the character, not the actor on the stage.

  Neil Simon

  Character, Writing, Years

  Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

• You get attached to the way you write, and I'm attached to notebooks. That's where I really write the plays. Just two or three pages at a time, then I transfer to the typewriter and rewrite while I type.

  Neil Simon

  Notebook, Writing, Play

  Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

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