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Journalist, essayist, screenwriter and film director
United States · 1941–2012
Nora Ephron was an American journalist, essayist, screenwriter and director. She began as a reporter and magazine columnist before writing films including Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally… and Sleepless in Seattle, the last of which she also directed.
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I wish I had learned more from failure than just mortification. I don’t think you learn much from success, and I don’t think you learn much from failure, unfortunately. It’s one of the sad things. You certainly learn that it’s more fun to have a hit than a flop.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 21 June 2007 source ↗
My advice to everyone is: “Become a journalist.” ... if you have a chance to be a newspaper reporter for three or four years — before you do whatever you want to do — do it, because you will know so much.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 21 June 2007 source ↗
People think that when you write something it’s cathartic, and I had written a lot of personal articles at Esquire, and people always say, “Oh God, it must have been so great when you finally wrote about having small breasts.” No. You get through that, and then you write it. It is not the writing that is the catharsis.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 21 June 2007 source ↗
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