Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron
Nora Ephronwas an American journalist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, director, and blogger...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth19 May 1941
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
inspirational baby pregnancy
If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
movie weekend optimism
It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, They lived happily ever after and the following quarter-century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work.
softball play legs
Everybody I know who goes out and plays a little softball, they break their leg.
knowing dry eras
We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry martini, and now we have come to the era when happiness is 'knowing what your uterus looks like'.
children obligation understood
Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.
reading bliss better-person
Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.
opening-up doctors trying
Another thing you end up doing when you get older, is you spend so much time sort of trying desperately to keep from just looking just a little older. You're just constantly putting stuff on your face and having things removed from yourself and opening up copies of "Vogue" so that you can find new ways to throw whatever money you've managed to save into the arms of some doctor who has just come up with a new way of lasering your face that feels like electroshock and all these things.
book writing mean
Everyone always asks, was he mad at you for writing the book? and I have to say, Yes, yes, he was. He still is. It is one of the most fascinating things to me about the whole episode: he cheated on me, and then got to behave as if he was the one who had been wronged because I wrote about it! I mean, it's not as if I wasn't a writer. It's not as if I hadn't often written about myself. I'd even written about him. What did he think was going to happen? That I would take a vow of silence for the first time in my life? "
clueless years facts
In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.
writing hardest hardest-thing
The hardest thing about writing is writing.
laughing people bananas
When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh.
thinking people parent
You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.
believe passion married
I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being.
hurt steps steps-forward
The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women.