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More Quotes by Nora Ephron
Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow down to smell the roses? And where do carbohydrates fit into all this? Are we really all going to spend our last years avoiding bread, especially now that bread in American is so unbelievable delicious? And what about chocolate?
You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.
You can't meet someone until you become what you're becoming.
Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.
When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.
Most of us live our lives devoid of cinematic moments.
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? "
The hardest thing about writing is writing.
Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.