23 Quotes by Hallie Ephron

Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.

When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.

Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.

For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food.

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first adult novel, Lucy Maud Montgomerys The Blue Castle.

My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am always happy when one of my sisters has a book published that I get to read.

A man notices a womans figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.

I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.