Top 72 Quotes by Nora Ephron

About Nora Ephron

These are some quotes by American author Nora Ephron Author, who lived between May 19, 1941 and June 26, 2012.

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.

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

Directing movies is the best job there is, that's all. I can hardly say a word after that. It's just a great job.

Directing movies is the best job there is, that's all. I can hardly say a word after that. It's just a great job.

Nora Ephron

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. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke.

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. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke.

Nora Ephron

Nothing like mashed potatoes when you're feeling blue. Nothing like getting into bed with a bowl of hot mashed potatoes already loaded with butter, and methodically adding a thin, cold slice of butter to every forkful.

Nora Ephron

Every 10 years or so, there was a moment when I'd say, even subconsciously, 'Is that all there is?' You've got to find ways to keep it fresh for yourself.

Every 10 years or so, there was a moment when I'd say, even subconsciously, 'Is that all there is?' You've got to find ways to keep it fresh for yourself.

Nora Ephron

E-mail is a whole new way of being friends with people: intimate but not, chatty but not, communicative but not; in short, friends but not. What a breakthrough. How did we ever live without it? I have more to say on this subject, but I have to answer an instant message from someone I almost know.

Nora Ephron

I don't have writer's block, really. I do have times when I can't get the lead, and that is the only part of the story which I have serious trouble with. I don't write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone - the whole point of view.

Nora Ephron

Your hair doesn't need to be washed every day any more than your black pants have to be dry-cleaned every time you wear them.

Your hair doesn't need to be washed every day any more than your black pants have to be dry-cleaned every time you wear them.

Nora Ephron

What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.

What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.

Nora Ephron

My second divorce was the worst kind of divorce. There were two children; one had just been born. My husband was in love with someone else.

My second divorce was the worst kind of divorce. There were two children; one had just been born. My husband was in love with someone else.

Nora Ephron

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