More Quotes by Nora Ephron
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, was I really in love or was I just kidding myself? Was I really in love or was I just pretending he was the man of my dreams? Was I really in love or was I just desperate?
Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.
Take notes. Everything is copy.
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 am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.
You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can't put things off thinking you'll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and sooner or later you will. So I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.
I think if you're lucky enough to find a voice in whatever you do, that voice will come sneaking out no matter what.
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? "
