My parents were screenwriters, and they had four daughters and we all write. So that's amazing. Talk about powerful parents. My mother… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I think you often have that sense when you write--that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
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
You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Most directors, I discovered, need to be convinced that the screenplay they're going to direct has something to do with them. And… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“I think the hardest thing about writing is writing." [Interview clip in the In Memoriam section of the 85th Academy Awards ceremony,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
You don't really have to believe what you write in a blog for more than the moment when you're writing it. You… — 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
I don't write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone - the whole… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Everyone always asks, was he mad at you for writing the book? and I have to say, Yes, yes, he was. He… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger? It's not better. Even if you… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict.... ever since I became loosely involved… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are." --Nora Ephron” — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are. — 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
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