I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
You should make it hard on yourself to write so you’re easier to read. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I'm such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. I don't need anything so… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I'm not a nervous person. I'm not afraid to be on TV. I'm only afraid when I write. When I'm at my… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse.… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
There are some great writers who are great talkers, but there are more great writers who are not great talkers. People seem… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I have a real aversion to machines. I write with a pen. Then I read it to someone who writes it onto… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
While clothes with pictures and/or writing on them are not entirely an invention of the modern age, they are an unpleasant indication… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If you feel the urge to write, just lie down and read a book: it will pass. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Instead of writing it wrong six times and then writing it right, I think it wrong six times and then write it… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share
I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share
Communists all seem to wear small caps, a look I consider better suited to tubes of toothpaste than to people. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share
“lack, or loutish and crass kollective is a program dedicated to the proposition that vulgarity and bad taste are an inalienable right. the lackies,… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share
[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share
When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share
The first time I ever saw platform shoes in the '70s, I knew they'd been revived from the '40s, and I felt sickened. And… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share
Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share
I do not think everyone is created equal. In fact, I know they're not. [The Constitution] means that everyone should have the same laws… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share
When I fly, I'm never afraid the plane is going to crash. But there have often been times when I was afraid it wouldn't… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share
Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share
![“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. [...] The other problem I have is fear of writing. The act of writing puts you in confrontation with yourself, which is why I think writers assiduously avoid writing…” quote by Fran Lebowitz](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f75/fran-lebowitz-690_confrontation_i-have-a-hard-time-writing-most-writers_1822488.png)
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