“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?” . . .
“For instance, I can’t carry a tune. What if I decided to
be an opera singer? I could take singing lessons from the greatest opera singer
in the world. I could hear every opera. I could learn seventeen languages. I
still would be a bad singer. That is something you’re born with. I couldn’t
make myself into a good opera singer. I couldn’t even make myself into a bad
opera singer.”
—Fran Lebowitz, writer, “A
Humorist at Work,” The Paris Review, 1993.
• Editorial Comment: Tried yodeling?
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