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 Copy Share Image
The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
From the essay "Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again" 1. Journalists sometimes make… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Working as a journalist is exactly like being the wallflower at an orgy. I always seem to find myself at a perfectly… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Journalists are interesting. They just aren't as interesting as the things they cover. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
The Washington press corps thinks that Julie Nixon Eisenhower is the only member of the Nixon Administration who has any credibility--and, as… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“[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 late. (Once,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“That's the catch about betrayal, of course: that it feels good, that there's something immensely pleasurable about moving from a complicated relationship which involves… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
'When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. When you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh.' — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“I wish he were better at hailing taxis than I am; on the other hand, I realize that expectation is culturally conditioned, utterly foolish,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I never went near the Wellesley College chapel in my four years there, but I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
You can't call yourself a feminist if you don't believe in the right to abortion. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.” — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“If I was home alone at night, I cooked myself an entire meal from one of these cookbooks. Then I sat down in front… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“The next man I was involved with lived in Boston. He taught me to cook mushrooms. He taught me that if you heat the… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
