Quote

For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.

Fran Lebowitz

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Fran Lebowitz
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
Author
Humorist
Journalist
Orator
Writer
Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
Knew
Movie
Write
Columns
Writing
Review
Going
Reviews
Always
Exactly
Movies

More quotes by Fran Lebowitz

Image
China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. It's like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. It's a very bad idea.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Even when America is not working that well, it still works better than other places.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
If people don't hold grudges, it means they just don't care what people do.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
What people don't know is: Clothes don't really fit you unless they're made for you. Especially when you wear men's clothes, like I do. American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I hate academic mysteries. As soon as I come across the word 'don' and it's not someone's first name, I close the book.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I don't like the kind of country living where you have to help. I like country living where there is help.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
It is imperative when flying coach that you restrain any tendency toward the vividly imaginative. For although it may momentarily appear to be the case, it is not at all likely that the cabin is entirely inhabited by crying babies smoking inexpensive domestic cigars.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?
Fran Lebowitz
Image
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?
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Fran Lebowitz