Quote

I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.

Fran Lebowitz

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
Author
Humorist
Journalist
Orator
Writer
Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
Extras
Meant
Money
Wanted
Work
Never
Extra

More quotes by Fran Lebowitz

Image
I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I had to go on TV with the president of the Catholic League, which is not an official organization at all, just a lot of Catholics, or maybe it's just this guy. He demanded to de-fund art completely and argued that taxpayers should not pay for it. I said people who represent the Catholic Church shouldn't talk about taxes.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. I don't want to brag, but I'm the laziest person I have ever known.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with Let's Make a Deal.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Without these tourists, New York would be fantastic. I don't want them to come. Stay home!
Fran Lebowitz
Image
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.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
When someone asks, 'Why do you think he's not calling me?' there's always one answer - 'He's not interested.' There's not ever any other answer.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I woke up at five o'clock in the morning with the whole first paragraph in my head. Now, this just shows what a slothful person I am: I tried to go back to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I'm a horrible girlfriend. I always was. I'm great at the beginning, because I can be very romantic.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.
Fran Lebowitz