Rachel Syme > Quotes

“One persistent piece of New York writerly lore is that the filmmaker and enthusiastic foodie Nora Ephron wrote a secret cookbook that she only shared with friends and neighbors. It was—according to whispers from those who claim to have seen a copy—full of quippy, gossipy commentary about salad dressing and baked chicken. I believe it exists, mostly because I think that Ephron, despite being a very public person, understood the power of clandestine communication. She did write the film You’ve Got Mail, after”
― Rachel Syme, Syme's Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence About (Almost) Every Imaginable Subject of Daily Life, with Odes to Desktop Ephemera and Selected Letters of Famous Writers

“Decadence ... is really just opulence with an expiration date.”
― Rachel Syme