Nora Ephron is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, journalist, and blogger. She is best known for her romantic comedies and is a triple nominee for the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay; for Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally… and Sleepless in Seattle.

“Beware of men who cry. It’s true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.”
Nora Ephron

“I don’t care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you’re also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.”
Nora Ephron

“I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.”
Nora Ephron

“If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.”
Nora Ephron

“The desire to get married, which – I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women – is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge – which is to be single again.”
Nora Ephron

“With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child’s problems will never be important enough for a television movie.”
Nora Ephron

“I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I’ll know how it turned out.”
Nora Ephron

“My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.”
Nora Ephron

“In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.”
Nora Ephron

“When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Not better, necessarily; not worse, necessarily; but different.”
Nora Ephron

“As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren’t even people I would date.”
Nora Ephron

“I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.”
Nora Ephron

“My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.”
Nora Ephron

“Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.”
Nora Ephron

“What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don’t know. It is a great mystery to all of us.”
Nora Ephron

“Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.”
Nora Ephron

“Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it.”
Nora Ephron

“Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.”
Nora Ephron

“You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.”
Nora Ephron

“New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)”
Nora Ephron