Fran Lebowitz - Writing Quotes

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Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered.

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Not writing is more of a psychological problem than a writing problem. All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal.... It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. Especially when it goes on for years. It's much more relaxing actually to work.

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

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I used to love to write. As a child I used to write all the time. I loved to write up until the second I got my first professional writing job. It turns out it's not that I hate to write. I hate, simply, to work.

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Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything else, why would you be a writer?

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Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.

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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.

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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.

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My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.

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

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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 actually to write.

Fran Lebowitz