Fran Lebowitz Hate Quotations

I hate all jobs. I've never had a job I liked.

I'm very lazy, I hate to work.

I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.

In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.

I hate academic mysteries. As soon as I come across the word 'don' and it's not someone's first name, I close the book.

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.

I hate money. It is boring and it is arithmetic. The two things I hate the most.

The theater itself is so archaic and old fashioned, that it doesn't really matter to me whether it's on Avenue D or at the Helen Hayes Theater. What's the difference? It's still a very nostalgic form. Also, it means you're knowingly walking into a room where there's actors. I feel it's very embarrassing. Because, you know, they're right there. You always think like, they can see you, and I think it's mortifying, frankly, and I hate to sit near the front, where you feel they actually might see you. It's too ... it's too live.

I happen to love a good run almost as much as sex. Like sex, there are often times I don't think I'm interested until I'm into it. Unlike sex, I do have to get out of bed and into the elements. I hate leaving bed.

I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.