About Nora Ephron: Nora Ephron was an American journalist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, director, and blogger.
I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with y...
As Harry puts it, men and women can never be friends because 'the sex part always gets in the way.
Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.
What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
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.
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.
Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.
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 be...
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over. Enough about that.The point is that for a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me.And now it's not.
Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.
I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
It was personal to me." ~Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) in You've Got Mail
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.
There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise. It's because of hair dye. In the 1950's only 7 percent of American women dyed their hair; today there a...
Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
