Fran Lebowitz Quotes About Writing

• Muy pocas personas poseen verdaderas dotes artísticas. Por lo tanto, es indecoroso e improductivo irritar la situación esforzándose. Si tienes un ardiente e inquieto deseo de escribir o pintar, simplemente come algo dulce y la sensación pasará.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Dulce, Arte, Escritura

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). "The Fran Lebowitz Reader", p.23, Vintage.

• It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Libro, Escritura, Personas

• I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Hate, Writing, Way

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from May 08, 2010

• Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Libro, Escribir, Intentar

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Nov 09, 2015

• If you feel the urge to write, just lie down and read a book: it will pass.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Mentir, Libro, Escribir

• Aunque la ropa con dibujos y/o escritos no es del todo un invento de la era moderna, es un indicio desagradable del estado general de las cosas. ... Sé realista. Si la gente no quiere escucharte, ¿qué te hace pensar que quieren oír tu jersey?

  Fran Lebowitz

  Escribir, Significar, Pensar

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). "The Fran Lebowitz Reader", p.139, Vintage.

• When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Libro, Escritura, Media

• The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Tables, Fame

  "Who is the most outstanding person of 2001? You tell us" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2001.

• Screenwriting is not an artform, it is a punishment from God.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Punishment, Screenwriting

• Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is frequently called upon to sit down and write.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Careers, Letters

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.161, Vintage

• In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount of syllables in a word. When I write, I read everything out loud to get the right rhythm.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Use, Pages

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Jul 06, 2010

• Haber sido impopular en el instituto no es sólo motivo para publicar libros.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Book, Writing, School

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Sep 17, 2011

• All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Criminals, Horrible

• Escribo tan despacio que podría escribir con mi propia sangre y no hacerme daño.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Herir, Escribir, Sangre

• There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Mines

• I have the exact opposite problem of every writer I've ever met: Every writer I've ever met writes things that are too long, and they have to edit them down.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Opposites, Long

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

• I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Different, Looks

• 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. I don't want to brag, but I'm the laziest person I have ever known.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Hard Times, Want

  Fuente: mrbellersneighborhood.com

• Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank, I feel felonious. Writing is what I'm supposed to be doing.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Robbing, Feels

• When I started publishing, I got offers to write for big magazines. But I would always say, "Well, it's not that I don't want to write for these big magazines, but you can't edit it."

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Magazines, Want

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

• Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to be a thing that has not gotten through to them. It's my impression that you could get rid of half of most of these books. These people are not good enough to be this long, but they're apparently also not good enough to be shorter.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Libro, Escritura, Edición

  Revista "Ruminator", agosto/septiembre de 2005.

• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Opposites

  Entrevista con Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. 17 de junio de 2011.

• Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Sex, Writing, Problem

• There are some great writers who are great talkers, but there are more great writers who are not great talkers. People seem to think there is some connection between talking and writing, but I love to talk and if there were some connection between the two of them I would be the most prolific writer in the history of the world.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Escribir, pensar, hablar

• 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 desk I feel like most people would feel if they went on TV.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, People, Tvs

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Jan 16, 2012

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