More Quotes by Nora Ephron
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? "
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.
So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It’s cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more uplifting.
I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up.
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.
And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.
Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.
I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.
