Nora Ephron Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger? It's not better. Even if you have all your marbles, you're constantly reaching for the name of the person you met the day before yesterday.

  Nora Ephron

  Jobs, Book, Writing

  "Nora Ephron Dies at 71; Writer and Filmmaker With a Genius for Humor" by Charles Mcgrath, www.nytimes.com. June 26, 2012.

• The Washington press corps thinks that Julie Nixon Eisenhower is the only member of the Nixon Administration who has any credibility--and, as one journalist put it, this is not to say that anyone believes what she is saying but simply that people believe she believes what she is sayingit is almost as if she is the only woman in America over the age of twenty who still thinks her father is exactly what she thought he was when she was six.

  Nora Ephron

  Father, Believe, Thinking

  Nora Ephron (1984). “Crazy Salad Plus Nine”

• We all look good for our age. Except for our necks.

  Nora Ephron

  Age, Looks, Necks

  Nora Ephron (2008). “I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman”, p.15, Random House

• 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 Ephron

  Summer, Writing, Kids

  "Nora on Hollywood: In Her Own Words", www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 10, 2012.

• You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is wrong with these people who are writing these books? Do they not have necks?

  Nora Ephron

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

• That's another thing about being a certain age that I've noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the mirror.

  Nora Ephron

  Mirrors, Age, Trying

  Nora Ephron (2008). “I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman”, p.16, Random House

• I don't know why so much nonsense about age is written - although I can certainly understand that no one really wants to read anything that says aging sucks.

  Nora Ephron

  Age, Want, Aging

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