Fran Lebowitz Quotes

I love being an author. I love actual writing, and I love communicating with children. And it keeps me young.

I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don’t. We never know. We just make stuff up.

Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.

The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.

For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it I always find hard.But I love finishing it,then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers.

There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain.

I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer.

Writers turn dreams into print.

A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation-may that be? Why, the degenerate fellow might as well have been a fiddler!

I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.

I like writing about friends.

I like being a writer.

Siren voices tell me, 'You don't have to keep going on.' And then you think, 'I'm a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?' I don't know. I like being a writer.

May books spread the world over!

The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.

Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.

At the end of the day, I want to be known for my ability to create life from words.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.