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
chance figure whether
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
apartment order outdoors pass
. . .to me the outdoors is what you have to pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.
hear last life phone stage teenager
Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
assure conscious firm life refusal remain
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
book cause high school unpopular
Having been unpopular in high school is not a just cause for book publication
racism racist environment
Whenever someone accuses someone of being a racist - which is rare, you have to admit, considering how much racism there is - there is an incredible outrage. I realized that we live in an environment that it seems to be worse to call someone a racist than to be one.
writing thinking opposites
Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I have a natural ability to condense, and so I often think, "Are you kidding me? Five thousand words? How am I gonna make 5,000 words out of that?"
political desire looks
Perhaps one of the more noteworthy trends of our time is the occupation of buildings accompanied by the taking of hostages. The perpetrators of these deeds are generally motivated by political grievance, social injustice, and the deeply felt desire to see how they look on TV.
democracy too-much culture
There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.
writing robbing feels
Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank, I feel felonious. Writing is what I'm supposed to be doing.
sex writing problem
Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography.
writing ifs hard
Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything else, why would you be a writer?
war book school
...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey.
artist people citizens
Citizen's Band radio renders one accessible to a wide variety of people from all walks of life. It should not be forgotten that all walks of life include conceptual artists, dry cleaners, and living poets.