All that means is that it wasn't personal to you. But it was personal to me. Nora Ephron More Quotes by Nora Ephron More Quotes From Nora Ephron Vera said: 'Why do you feel you have to turn everything into a story?' So I told her why: Because if I tell the story, I control the version. Because if I tell the story, I can make you laugh, and I would rather have you laugh at me than feel sorry for me. Because if I tell the story, it doesn't hurt as much. Because if I tell the story, I can get on with it. Nora Ephron hurtsorrylaughing 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. Nora Ephron parentpeoplethinking Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it. Nora Ephron tastefoodpeople So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? Nora Ephron mailbookway I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech. Nora Ephron careacceptancewriting 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. Nora Ephron bananaslaughingpeople Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow down to smell the roses? And where do carbohydrates fit into all this? Are we really all going to spend our last years avoiding bread, especially now that bread in American is so unbelievable delicious? And what about chocolate? Nora Ephron smelllongyears [on the screenplay for "When Harry Met Sally"] 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. Nora Ephron optimismweekendmovie Most of us live our lives devoid of cinematic moments. Nora Ephron cinematicour-livesmoments Take notes. Everything is copy. Nora Ephron notescopies Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists. Become screenwriters. Nora Ephron screenwritersjournalistwould-be To state the obvious, romantic comedies have to be funny and they have to be romantic. But one of the most important things, for me anyway, is that they be about two strong people finding their way to love. Nora Ephron strongtwopeople From the essay "Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again" 1. Journalists sometimes make things up. 2. Journalists sometimes get things wrong. 3. Almost all books that are published as memoirs were initially written as novels, and then the agent/editor said, This might work better as a memoir. 6. Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one. Nora Ephron editorsmenbook Food is one of my favourite things. Though I certainly know lots of people who happen to be happily married who don't have food play the role in it that it plays in my life. And I don't know how they do it, and frankly I feel so bad for them because I just love food and one of my favourite things is asking, "What do we want for dinner? What do we feel like eating?" That wonderful negotiation that goes on several times a week about what "we" feel like. Nora Ephron rolesplaypeople Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss. Nora Ephron better-personblissreading The hardest thing about writing is writing. Nora Ephron hardest-thinghardestwriting That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism. Nora Ephron journalismpowerfulphotograph The only way to learn is to keep doing something new, and, if you're lucky, learning with people who really know how to do it. Nora Ephron luckypeopleway We weren't meant to have futures, we were meant to marry them. We weren't meant to have politics, or careers that mattered, or opinions, or lives; we were meant to marry them. If you wanted to be an architect, you married an architect. Nora Ephron womenopinioncareers One of the things people always say to you if you get upset is, don't take it personally, but listen hard to what's going on and, please, I beg you, take it personally. Understand: every attack on Hillary Clinton for not knowing her place is an attack on you. Underneath almost all those attacks are the words: get back, get back to where you once belonged. Nora Ephron upsetknowingpeople
