The Hardest Thing About Writing Is Writing.

It's Always Hard To Remember Love - Years Pass And You Say To Yourself, Was I Really In Love Or Was I Just Kidding Myself? Was I Really In Love Or Was I Just Pretending He Was The Man Of My Dreams? Was I Really In Love Or Was I Just Desperate?

Too Few Journalists Become Screenwriters. I Say To All The Would-be Screenwriters: Become Journalists. And I’ll Say To Working Journalists: Do Not Stay Journalists. Become Screenwriters.

If There Is A Nora Ephron Signature Anything It Is That There's Slightly Too Much Food. I Have A Friend Whose Mantra Is: You Must Choose. And I Believe The Exact Opposite: I Think You Should Always Have At Least Four Desserts That Are Kind Of Fighting With Each Other.

So Many Of The Conscious And Unconscious Ways Men And Women Treat Each Other Have To Do With Romantic And Sexual Fantasies That Are Deeply Ingrained, Not Just In Society But In Literature. The Women's Movement May Manage To Clean Up The Mess In Society, But I Don't Know Whether It Can Ever Clean Up The Mess In Our Minds.

Most Directors, I Discovered, Need To Be Convinced That The Screenplay They're Going To Direct Has Something To Do With Them. And This Is A Tricky Thing If You Write Screenplays Where Women Have Parts That Are Equal To Or Greater Than The Male Part. And I Thought, 'why Am I Out There Looking For Directors?'—because You Look At A List Of Directors, It's All Boys. It Certainly Was When I Started As A Screenwriter. So I Thought, 'i'm Just Gonna Become A Director And That'll Make It Easier.'