How am I going to become a writer if I don't know how to suffer? Actually, I'd give up writing if I could see a naked girl while I was eating ice cream.
Neil Simon
- Life
- 1927-2018
- Occupations
- playwright, screenwriter, film producer
- Notable works
- Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, Come Blow Your Horn
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She wants me to write quietly. If that was the only sentence I published in my memoirs, it would be a bestseller.
Neil Simon
Why don't you just say you lost the money? You had a hole in your pocket. You can tear a hole in your pocket.
Neil Simon
You don’t get too far talking to Laurie. Sometimes I think the flutter in her heart is really in her brain.
Neil Simon