Tag: Fran Lebowitz
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‘I used to love to write. As a child I used to write all the time. I loved to write up until the second I got my first professional writing job. It turns out it’s not that I hate to write. I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly…
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‘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. When my mother explained it, I kept after her: What are you saying? What do you…
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‘Every time I sit at my desk, I look at my dictionary, a Webster’s Second Unabridged with nine million words in it and think, All the words I need are in there; they’re just in the wrong order.’ – Fran Lebowitz, A Humourist at Work, The Paris Review
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‘I’m such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. I don’t need anything so snappy. I write so slowly that I could write in my own blood without hurting myself… I have a real aversion to machines. I write with a pen. Then I read it to…
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‘Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.’ – Fran Lebowitz
Roseena Veronika Hussain 