Think About It 119: NORA EPHRON

 

The truth is that men don’t want to be friends with women.  Men know they don’t understand women, and they don’t much care.  They want women as lovers, as wives, as mothers, but they’re really not interested in them as friends.  They have friends.  Men are their friends.  And they talk to their male friends about sports, and I have no idea what else.

      Women, on the other hand, are dying to be friends with men.  Women know they don’t understand men, and it bothers them: they think that if only they could be friends with them, they would understand them and, what’s more (and this is their gravest mistake), it would help.  Women think if they could just understand men, they could do something.  Women are always trying to do something.

 

Introduction to the print edition of When Harry Met Sally (1990)

 

 

 

 

 

Use the link below to read about the life and work of North American writer and filmmaker NORA EPHRON:

 

 

https://www.literaryladiesguide.com/author-biography/life-writing-of-nora-ephron/

 

 

 

 

 

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1941–2012

 

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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I hate adjectives.  I also hate similies and metaphors, just can't do them, never have been able to…The problem, though, is how to do without adjectives.  If you write about food, you can't really do without them; but if you do with them, you run the risk of writing sentences like 'The fish was juicy but the sauce was lumpy,' or 'The sauce was creamy but the veal was stringy,' or, to sum up, 'The noun was (complimentary adjective) but the other noun was (uncomplimentary adjective).' 

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Use the link below to read the obituary of writer, journalist and director NORA EPHRON who died of leukaemia on 26 June 2012:

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/nora-ephron-prolific-author-and-screenwriter-dies-at-age-71/2012/06/26/gJQAMOtN5V_story.htm
 
 

 

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I think you often have that sense when you write –– that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on paper, you’re free of it.  And you’re not, of course; you’ve just managed to set it down on paper, that’s all.

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Use the link below to read a brief interview with JACOB BERNSTEIN, son of North American screenwriter, director and journalist NORA EPHRON:

https://nypost.com/2016/03/18/nora-ephrons-son-my-mom-whacked-a-lot-of-people/

 

 

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