Quote

I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.

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
Typewriter
Typewriters
Machines
Never

More quotes by Fran Lebowitz

Image
The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
People always say pop culture. As if we have some high culture to distinguish it from.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I'm very lazy, I hate to work.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism, which is too exciting, it emerges as the most palatable form of government.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.
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
Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word collectible as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
if you live in New York and you have a guest room, you have guests. So I think it's best not to have a guest room.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I drove a cab. But all the girls I knew when I was young who had to work - there were rich girls - but the ones who had to work were waitresses. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Sleep is death without the responsibility.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
A dog who thinks he is a man's best friend is a dog who obviously has never met a tax lawyer.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
You sit or stand in the subway, and you look around - I do, because I don't have a phone so I'm not playing a game - and you see people.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A community is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That's just self-righteousness - incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
Fran Lebowitz