Quote by Fran Lebowitz

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

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

Summary

This quote suggests that one's personal life story may not be interesting or captivating enough to be worthy of being written in a book. It advises against attempting to document one's life story, implying that it may lack the compelling elements or captivating events that make a story engaging to readers. It promotes the idea that not every individual's life experiences are book-worthy, and thus discourages putting effort into trying to write a book about one's own life story.

Topics

Life

By Fran Lebowitz

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

Evil

A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of

A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, Wish you were here.

Humor Funny

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as t

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

Nature

I look my best when I'm totally free, on holiday, walking on

I look my best when I'm totally free, on holiday, walking on the beach.

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

Thankful

I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and

I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.

Macaulay Culkin

Cool

Where a great proportion of the people are suffered to langu

Where a great proportion of the people are suffered to languish in helpless misery, that country must be ill policed, and wretchedly governed: a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization

Civilization

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

Pope John Paul II

Death

But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable b

But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.

Christopher Nolan

Technology

Richard Bach with this book does two things. He gives me Fli

Richard Bach with this book does two things. He gives me Flight. He makes me Young. For both I am deeply grateful.

Authors & Writing

Men were only made into men with great difficulty even in pr

Men were only made into men with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally a man any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

Percy Wynham Lewis

Men