Clare

“We can’t do everything.”
― Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck

“Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I’ve 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.”
― Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

“I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction; there is only narrative.”
― Nora Ephron, The Most of Nora Ephron: The ultimate anthology

“I can’t understand why anyone would write fiction when what actually happens is so amazing.”
― Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck