Nora Ephron Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like 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.

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  Real, Reading, Book

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Feb 02, 2012

• So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

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  Book, Way, Mail

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jan 02, 2012

• There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much time at the bottom of the ocean and can't tell which way is up. When he surfaces, he's liable to have a condition called the bends, where the body can't adapt to the oxygen levels in the atmosphere. All of this happens to me when I surface from a great book.

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  Ocean, Book, Oxygen

• When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

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  Book, Dark, Way

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Dec 30, 2015

• I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant, bursting with ideas, brimming with memories of other books I've loved.

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  Memories, Book, Reading

• Everyone always asks, was he mad at you for writing the book? and I have to say, Yes, yes, he was. He still is. It is one of the most fascinating things to me about the whole episode: he cheated on me, and then got to behave as if he was the one who had been wronged because I wrote about it! I mean, it's not as if I wasn't a writer. It's not as if I hadn't often written about myself. I'd even written about him. What did he think was going to happen? That I would take a vow of silence for the first time in my life? "

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  Book, Mean, Writing

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Aug 28, 2016

• If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

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  Inspirational, Baby, Pregnancy

  Heartburn ch. 4 (1983)

• I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and loved. She is my phantom limb, and I just can’t believe I’m here without her.”- on losing her best friend

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  Believe, Book, Lunch

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jun 17, 2016

• Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.

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  Book, Reading, Opposites

  "I Am Just a Reader" by Deborah Plummer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2013.

• 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.

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  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 state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn't happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I am truly beside myself.

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  Book, Doe, Wonderful

• Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So good night, dear void. - You've Got Mail

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  Good Night, Book, Brave

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jul 05, 2013

• From the essay "Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again" 1. Journalists sometimes make things up. 2. Journalists sometimes get things wrong. 3. Almost all books that are published as memoirs were initially written as novels, and then the agent/editor said, This might work better as a memoir. 6. Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.

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  Book, Men, Editors

• 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?

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  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

• A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it.

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  Book, Men, Always Alone

  Nora Ephron (1978). “Scribble Scribble Notes on the Media”

• If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. The beginning is glorious, especially if you're lucky enough not to have morning sickness and if, like me, you've had small breasts all your life. Suddenly they begin to grow, and you've got them, you've really got them, breasts, darling breasts, and when you walk down the street they bounce, truly they do, they bounce bounce bounce.

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  Morning, Pregnancy, Book

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.44, Vintage

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