Pretend It's a City (TV Mini Series)

Cultural Affairs (2021)

Fran Lebowitz: Self

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• Fran Lebowitz : The main thing writers need, or painters, or any other kind of artist, is talent. And the great thing about talent, is that it is the one thing, the only thing I can think of, that is absolutely randomly distributed throughout the population of the world. It has nothing to do with anything. It has-- You cannot buy it. You cannot learn it. You know, you cannot inherit it. You can't. It's not genetic. Okay? It is just like sprinkled like sand around the world and it could come up anywhere. Now of course, there are many places, where you might have this talent, but you have no ability to express it. Okay? There are many places like that, but, um, and it is probably the reason why people are always especially in this country, um, looking for explanations for, um, success of a book or... - I mean when I say "success", I don't mean commercial success - other than talent. Because it's infuriating to people.