Fran Lebowitz
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
No, it wasn't even that.
I don't know.
It wasn't that.
By that time, I was already in my 20s when I did that.
There were these publishers, it's always a surprise that people were young, that pornography used to be written.
Like, what do you mean you wrote it?
But there were books, and there were publishers that just did that.
And if you gave them a finished book, you got $500.
I mean, $500.
My rent was, at that point, a little over $100.
So I thought, this is fantastic.
This is like winning the lottery.
But I couldn't do it.
It was too hard.
It was too boring.
So I started asking, do it with me.
We'll do it together, and I'll give you half.
Then it was, do it with me, I'll give you a quarter.
By the time it ended up, there were like 20 of us sitting in the apartment.