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
people age certain
When you reach a certain age, suddenly there are lots of people younger than you, which is really startling.
hate lazy i-hate
I'm very lazy, I hate to work.
jobs children hate
I used to love to write. As a child I used to write all the time. I loved to write up until the second I got my first professional writing job. It turns out it's not that I hate to write. I hate, simply, to work.
hate two boring
I hate money. It is boring and it is arithmetic. The two things I hate the most.
hate writing way
I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.
sweet art writing
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
thinking sweaters people
If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?
new-york hate people
In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.
hate book names
I hate academic mysteries. As soon as I come across the word 'don' and it's not someone's first name, I close the book.
thinking judgment wit
I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response.
children taken class
Anti-smoking sentiment has replaced middle-class morality entirely. The smoker has taken the place of the homosexual. Today you hear people say things about smokers that used to be said about homosexuals -- they pollute the environment; you don't want them around your children ...
character people literature
You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
art crafts copycats
It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that our experience does not more closely resemble a macramé plant holder than it does a painting by Seurat. When it comes to art, life is the biggest copycat in the matter of the frame.
mean past people
I used to rent a house in Princeton, New Jersey, and whenever people came to visit me, I would drive them past Albert Einstein's house, which is the most ordinary house in Princeton - a house, let me assure you, that now a salesman wouldn't live in. I'd always say, "That was Albert Einstein's house." And they'd say, "What do you mean? Why would Albert Einstein live in a little house like that?" And I'd always say to people, "Because he didn't care!"