Fran Lebowitz Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Think before you speak. Read before you think.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Book

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.222, 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

  Book, Writing, People

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

  Fran Lebowitz

  Book, Writing, Trying

  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

  Lying, Book, Writing

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

  Fran Lebowitz

  Book, Writing, Mean

• Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Book, Magazines, Literature

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.157, Vintage

• 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 mean? I couldn't believe it. It was astonishing. It was like--here's the man who makes all the trees. Then I wanted to be a writer, because, I suppose, it seemed the closest thing to being God.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Mother, Believe, Book

• Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Book, Writing, School

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Sep 17, 2011

• To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Book, Taken, Mean

• Never judge a cover by its book.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Book, Judging

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.187, Vintage

• Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Education, Children, Disappointment

  Fran Lebowitz (2003). “Metropolitan Life ; Social Studies: Social studies”

• Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I wanted to, too, because all children aspire to inhuman feats like flying. Most people grow up to realize they can't fly. Writers are people who don't grow up to realize they can't be God.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Growing Up, Book

• 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.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Book, People, Tree

• Ever since I was a little child, I refused to see movies of books that I loved. Because you already know what Heidi looks like and she doesn't look like Shirley Temple.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Book, Looks

• People are constantly telling me, whether they are friends who feel sorry for me, because I can't find a place to live, or real estate agents, "You can't afford an apartment the size you need with this many books. Why don't you just put some of your books in storage?" And I always say the same thing: "What if I told you I had four children? Would you say, 'You just can't afford to house four children. Why don't you just put two of them in storage?'" That's how I feel.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Sorry, Real

  "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

  Book, Writing, Editing

  "Ruminator" Magazine, August/September 2005.

• Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn't have all these books. It's too expensive.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Book, People, Expensive

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

• If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Book, World, Want

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.160, Vintage

• 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

  Hate, Book, Names

• There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Self Esteem, Book, Taught

• ...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey.

  Fran Lebowitz

  War, Book, School

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.43, Vintage

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