Fran Lebowitz
Fran Lebowitz
Frances Ann "Fran" Lebowitzis an American author and public speaker. Lebowitz is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities. Some reviewers have called her a modern-day Dorothy Parker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEssayist
Date of Birth27 October 1950
CityMorristown, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
children growing-up book
Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I wanted to, too, because all children aspire to inhuman feats like flying. Most people grow up to realize they can't fly. Writers are people who don't grow up to realize they can't be God.
smoking innovation done
Technological innovation has done great damage ... to eating habits. Food is now available in such unpleasant forms that one frequently finds smoking between courses to be an aid to digestion.
children men self
Take away a man's actual sense of manhood - which is conventionally based on the ability to work, to earn money, to be self-sufficient, to provide for children - and you've got to give them something else. And they did.
morning sleep firsts
I woke up at five o'clock in the morning with the whole first paragraph in my head. Now, this just shows what a slothful person I am: I tried to go back to sleep.
integrity thinking different
I think one manifestation of integrity is holding a grudge. Saying no is a little different. Holding a grudge is the modern equivalent of having standards.
writing thinking six
Instead of writing it wrong six times and then writing it right, I think it wrong six times and then write it right the seventh time.
jobs dignity
It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.
war years bosnia
It's very disheartening to encounter a fearful twenty-one year old. They haven't earned the right to be that afraid. It's not like we're living in war-torn Bosnia or something.
believe years alcohol
I believe that at birth everyone gets the capacity for a certain amount of drugs and alcohol, everyone the same, you can do it all between 15 and 19 like I did, or you can stretch it out over 70 years.
edited
I've never had the experience of being edited and never will.
dream writing library
My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.
writing profession exhausting
Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered.
impossible not-sure knows
I've never seen the Kardashians; I'm not sure who they are. But I know a lot about them because it's impossible not to.
important balanced balanced-diet
Food is definitely important part of your balanced diet.