Norah Ephron > Quotes

“Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I have 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.”
― Norah Ephron

“Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black”
― Norah Ephron

“I'd rather be too New York than too anything else.”
― Norah Ephron

“It's not just that we were best friends–we dated each other. We went steady. That's one thing that happens when you become a couple: you date other couples.”
― Norah Ephron

“Show me a woman who cries when the trees lose their leaves in autumn and I'll show you a real asshole.”
― Norah Ephron