Neil Simon Quotes
I don’t like writing for comedians. I like writing for actors. The best comedians are the best actors.
Neil Simon
Quotes to Explore
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By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.
Ralph Ellison
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When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.
Taslima Nasrin
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I hope you will understand my hesitation in writing to one whom I admire as the greatest representative of a philosophy to which I want to dedicate my whole life.
Ayn Rand
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I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.
Neil Young
Buffalo Springfield
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This goes for our songwriting as well as our success as a band - the minute we stopped chasing what we thought people wanted to hear and started writing things that moved us, that's when people started paying attention.
Matthew Ramsey
Old Dominion
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I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.
Charles M. Blow
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A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.
Billy Strayhorn
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Whatever is original in my writing comes from my musical apprenticeship. I look for rhythm in words. I imagine words as if they were musical chords. Often I'll write something, read it, and find it musically unsatisfactory. There is a musical imperative in my choice of words.
Francisco "Chico" Buarque de Hollanda
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'Just' writing is every bit as important as any other creative part of a film.
Marti Noxon
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I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not.
Phillip Phillips
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When you're making an independent feature, there are so many difficult stages. One, just writing the script is difficult on its own. Then, when you get it to a place where you're happy with it, great - but then you need to find persons who are willing to produce it, who like the script.
Kyle Mooney
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Growing up a lonely only child prepared me for the years of solitude spent as a writer; years spent in the company of people who don't exist, imaginary people you have conversations with. It's a paid form of madness, this writing stuff.
Debi Gliori
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By the sheer act of writing, we are trying to place value on the stories that we're invested in.
Lynn Nottage
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Lord Byron, who was writing the third canto of Childe Harold, was the only one among us who put his thoughts upon paper. These, as he brought them successively to us, clothed in all the light and harmony of poetry, seemed to stamp as divine the glories of heaven and earth, whose influences we partook with him.
Mary Shelley
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You just see a good project and want to be involved in it, and that's what 'Dexter' was.
David Zayas
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I feel like acting is sort of like that: You're getting so many 'no's all the time. It's just a bunch of no's and a couple of cool yes's. And especially with comedy, too, when you're up on stage, doing live shows, you get immediate yes's or no's.
Jessica Williams
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I don’t like writing for comedians. I like writing for actors. The best comedians are the best actors.
Neil Simon
