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
writing punishment screenwriting
Screenwriting is not an artform, it is a punishment from God.
stealing millions
No one earns $100 million. You steal $100 million.
alcohol drug age
I drank my lifetime supply of alcohol and I took my lifetime supply of drugs between the ages of 15 and 19.
bored
By the time everyone catches up with you, you're bored.
errors shining soul
The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
love two years
If you can stay in love for more than two years, you're on something.
advice ifs
There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn.
funny-love best-love romantic-love
Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.
revenge being-alone two
That I am totally devoid of sympathy for, or interest in, the world of groups is directly attributable to the fact that my two greatest needs and desires - smoking cigarettes and plotting revenge - are basically solitary pursuits.
circles modern-life crash
When I fly, I'm never afraid the plane is going to crash. But there have often been times when I was afraid it wouldn't crash. I was just afraid it was going to circle O'Hare for the rest of my life.
fantasy bumper-sticker settling
Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy
writing magazines want
When I started publishing, I got offers to write for big magazines. But I would always say, "Well, it's not that I don't want to write for these big magazines, but you can't edit it."
strong men kitchen
Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.
party admire
[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.