If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.

—Fran Lebowitz

About Fran Lebowitz

Portrait of Fran Lebowitz

Frances Ann Lebowitz (; born October 27, 1950) is an American writer, public speaker, cultural critic, and actor. She is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life, particularly from a New York City perspective, and for her association with prominent figures in the city's art and cultural scenes...

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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

—Fran Lebowitz

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

—Fran Lebowitz

My ability to tolerate shame, to compartmentalize it, to swallow it, increased right along with my belt size. it came with the territory of being heavy. Obese people have a lifetime of experience with shame.

—Fran Lebowitz

Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.

—Fran Lebowitz

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

—Fran Lebowitz

More quotations tagged with “writing”

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

—Florence Nightingale

Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.

—Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

—Elaine Liner

Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus ticket, on the wall of a cell.

—Edward Gibbon

She was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same-you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.

—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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