Nora Ephron

Take notes. Everything is copy

— Nora Ephron

I'll have what she's having

— Nora Ephron

The hardest thing about writing is writing.

— Nora Ephron

People have only one way to be.

— Nora Ephron

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.

— Nora Ephron

“Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”

— Nora Ephron

The empty nest is underrated.

— Nora Ephron

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

— Nora Ephron

I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.

— Nora Ephron

All that means is that it wasn't personal to you. But it was personal to me.

— Nora Ephron

Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.

— Nora Ephron

That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

— Nora Ephron

You can never have too much butter – that is my belief. If I have a religion, that's it,

— Nora Ephron

“checked out the mirror to see if I looked older, or sadder, or wiser. I didn’t; I just looked tired.”

— Nora Ephron

I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.

— Nora Ephron

If Sigmund Freud had watched Phil Donahue he would never have wondered what women want.

— Nora Ephron

... the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but…

— Nora Ephron

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to…

— Nora Ephron

“He loved Thelma, Jonathan said, he had never loved anyone but Thelma, he had loved Thelma for nineteen years and would always…

— Nora Ephron

You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is…

— Nora Ephron

Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the…

— Nora Ephron

New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)

— Nora Ephron

I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in…

— Nora Ephron

The odd thing about this form of communication is you're more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want…

— Nora Ephron

I'm not one of those people who think you should go grey and that there is some virtue in looking wrinkly if…

— Nora Ephron

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will…

— Nora Ephron

It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, They lived happily ever after and the following…

— Nora Ephron

One of the things people always say to you if you get upset is, don't take it personally, but listen hard to…

— Nora Ephron

Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do…

— Nora Ephron

“If I was home alone at night, I cooked myself an entire meal from one of these cookbooks. Then I sat down…

— Nora Ephron

We weren't meant to have futures, we were meant to marry them. We weren't meant to have politics, or careers that mattered,…

— Nora Ephron

“It was exciting in its own self-absorbed way, which is very much the essence of journalism: you truly believe that you are…

— Nora Ephron

Everyone always asks, was he mad at you for writing the book? and I have to say, Yes, yes, he was. He…

— Nora Ephron

“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too…

— Nora Ephron

“Sometimes I believe that love dies but hope springs eternal. Sometimes I believe that hope dies but love springs eternal. Sometimes I…

— Nora Ephron

“I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half…

— Nora Ephron

“HARRY: (Voice-over)The first time we met we hated each other. SALLY: (Voice-over) You didn’t hate me, I hated you. (beat) And the second time…

— Nora Ephron

“Harry Burns: You realize of course that we could never be friends. Sally Albright: Why not? Harry Burns: What I'm saying is…

— Nora Ephron

We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that…

— Nora Ephron

I am living in the Google years, no question of that. And there are advantages to it. When you forget something, you…

— Nora Ephron