A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because journalists go into worlds that are not their own. Kids who go to Hollywood write coming-of-age stories for their first scripts, about what happened to them when they were sixteen. Then they write the summer camp script. At the age of twenty-three they haven't produced anything, and that's the end of the career.
Nora EphronLook at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.
Nora EphronYou can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).
Nora EphronReading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.
Nora EphronIn fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.
Nora EphronI recognize that printing pictures of corpses raises all sorts of problems about taste and titillation and sensationalism; the fact is, however, that people die. Death happens to be one of life's main events. And it is irresponsible and more than that, inaccurate, for newspapers to fail to show it.
Nora Ephron