I use those medical gloves that fit very tightly and are disposable for all chopping – peppers, onions, garlic, etc. Very Lady Macbeth, I think. Nora Ephron Read Quote
The truth is that most marriages have food as a major player in them, and certainly mine does. Nora Ephron Read Quote
My second divorce was the worst kind of divorce. There were two children; one had just been born. My husband was in love with someone else. Nora Ephron Read Quote
Here are some questions I am constantly fretting over: Do you splurge, or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it’s your last, or do you save your money on the chance you’ll live 20 more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Nora Ephron Read Quote
I go through periods where I work a great deal at all hours of the day whenever I am around a typewriter, and then I go through spells where I don’t do anything. I just sort of have lunch – all day. I never have been able to stick to a schedule. I work when there is something due or when I am really excited about a piece. Nora Ephron Read Quote
I think that readers believe that a writer becomes friends with the people he interviews and writes about – and I think there are some writers who do that – but that hasn’t happened to me. I do think it’s dangerous because then you write the article to please them, which is a terrible error. Nora Ephron Read Quote
When we were working on ‘Julie & Julia,’ I went back to the Julia Child cookbook and made some things I haven’t made in a while, one being beef bourguignon, which to me is a hilariously 1960s dish that everyone felt they had to serve at a dinner party or they weren’t a grown-up. Nora Ephron Read Quote
All I do when I write scripts is think about food: ‘Have I worked long enough to justify a walk to the kitchen?’ Nora Ephron Read Quote
I don’t think there was ever a dish that changed my life. I certainly remember a constant series of things that I had for the first time and thought, ‘Where has this been all my life?’ One was brie. I mean, oh my God! One was my first soft-shell crabs. Nora Ephron Read Quote
We’re saved somewhat by Google. You can – when you’re all sitting around the table desperately snapping your fingers in the hopes of remembering the name of that movie that you can’t remember the name of – you can make people think that you are not as old as you actually are because you have the technology to find the answer. Nora Ephron Read Quote
