579 Quotes by Fran Lebowitz

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

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction.

Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

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.

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

I just can't smile at people for money.

One [New York] eatery is a remodeled diner that looks like what Busby Berkeley would have done if only he hadn't had the money.