Quote

The hardest thing about writing is writing.

Nora Ephron

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Nora Ephron
Age: 71 †
Born: 1941
Born: May 19
Died: 2012
Died: June 26
Blogger
Essayist
Film Director
Film Producer
Humorist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Reporter
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
Hardest
Writing
Thing

More quotes by Nora Ephron

Image
You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).
Nora Ephron
Image
Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.
Nora Ephron
Image
You can't call yourself a feminist if you don't believe in the right to abortion.
Nora Ephron
Image
Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn't cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it's Rachel Samstat, she's bright, she's funny and she can cook!
Nora Ephron
Image
I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity [Wellesley] stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the face of boredom and stupidity. Tolerance, in the worst sense of the word. How marvelous it would have been to go to a women's college that encouraged impoliteness, that rewarded aggression, that encouraged argument.
Nora Ephron
Image
[I] had gotten to the point where I simply could not make a bad vinaigrette, this was not exactly the stuff of drama. (Even now, I cannot believe Mark would want to risk losing that vinaigrette. You just don't bump into vinaigrettes that good.)
Nora Ephron
Image
I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?
Nora Ephron
Image
I actually believe in denial.
Nora Ephron
Image
Everybody I know who goes out and plays a little softball, they break their leg.
Nora Ephron
Image
I’m really not interested in women as victims. Look at me, I get the last laugh ‘cause I get to be funny about it.
Nora Ephron
Image
[On George W. Bush:] How is it possible that the president is off on vacation and the vice president is, too? Not that it matters that much if the president is on vacation on some level, the president is always on vacation.
Nora Ephron
Image
Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.
Nora Ephron
Image
It's so interesting that we think we know the rules to this game, this total hypothetical game called, Would you, If you had it to do over. It's not out there.
Nora Ephron
Image
That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.
Nora Ephron
Image
Believe me, if I looked good, it's not an accident.
Nora Ephron
Image
My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
Nora Ephron
Image
And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.
Nora Ephron
Image
American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.
Nora Ephron
Image
I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.
Nora Ephron
Image
I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.
Nora Ephron