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
thinking judgment wit
I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response.
writing thinking matter
I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I'm afraid of not writing.
country helping kind
I don't like the kind of country living where you have to help. I like country living where there is help.
hurt writing blood
I'm such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. I don't need anything so snappy. I write so slowly that I could write in my own blood without hurting myself.
writing looks way
I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.
war believe people
If people had gavels, there would be no wars. If every person in the world had a gavel and could bang it and get everyone's attention right away and make their displeasure known, I believe the level of actual violence in the world would just disappear to practically nothing.
people guests sides
Commercials and sometimes other guests - it's the down side of TV. Other people - it's the downside of life in general.
being-old
There's nothing like being old to be sure of everything.
night civilization numbers
That which we call civilization is merely the accumulated debris of a chilling number of bad nights.
funny women humor
Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
air graves novel
There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air.
college years fickle
We are all born with a rut radar. Mine is finely wired, a little oversensitive maybe. Perhaps just a bit hyperactive. Twenty steady boyfriends before turning 16, a new best friend 12 times a year, switched college majors every time I met someone who seemed exactly like the sort of person I really, really wanted to be. I'm not fickle. I'm just never there yet.
weather doubt foxes
I doubt there's ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not.
hate mean thinking
The theater itself is so archaic and old fashioned, that it doesn't really matter to me whether it's on Avenue D or at the Helen Hayes Theater. What's the difference? It's still a very nostalgic form. Also, it means you're knowingly walking into a room where there's actors. I feel it's very embarrassing. Because, you know, they're right there. You always think like, they can see you, and I think it's mortifying, frankly, and I hate to sit near the front, where you feel they actually might see you. It's too ... it's too live.