Neil Simon Quotes

France was very opposite of the show-business experience I'd been living; I was anonymous and alone. I wore no makeup, wore the same clothes every day. And I wrote and wrote and wrote.

When I got into music, that was another way to be by myself.

Solitude helps you reflect.

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

By nature, I sit alone in a room and type... My goal was never celebrity.

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

I write to feel alone.

Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.

Writing dark poetry was always my escape.

That's what my music is good for - clearing out the house and being alone.

One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.

Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue.

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I'm not writing than when I am.

Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

I think I should be here alone to rethink the world - I do. I want these lesser humans gone.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.