Neil Simon Inspirational Quotes (30)

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.

I never write a play with an eye to film.

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.

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

He's too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie.

[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.