Quote

Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.

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
Nothing
Mean
Duller
Writing
Taker
Life
Toll
Tolls
Deadly
Pornography
Exciting

More quotes by Fran Lebowitz

Image
When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse. It's like the impulse for wanting a dog.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so that people are constantly interrupting you while you're eating dinner.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Knowingness is sexy. The opposite of sexy is naivete.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I stopped taking drugs when I was 19, and who wants to drive a cab around New York with drugs in their car?
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I've never seen the Kardashians I'm not sure who they are. But I know a lot about them because it's impossible not to.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Frenchman: Germans with good food.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
A salad is not a meal, it is a style.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
The truth is that most families have no smart ones and no pretty ones. Most families are a bunch of unattractive dopes. And it turns out that the Bush family, like most families, has no smart ones. I was not surprised to see this.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that cigarettes came already lit the thought of such exertion at an hour when decent people are just nodding off is thoroughly abhorrent.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn a city, which is a place where people live, into a tourist attraction, you're going to have to make it a place that people who don't live here, like. So I object to living in a place for people who don't live here.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
Fran Lebowitz