Fran Lebowitz on writing

Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.

All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.

I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or or not.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712–1778

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Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin1706–1790

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