Hallie Ephron Quotes

• The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines.

  Hallie Ephron

  Truth, Imagine, Truth Is

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• I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.

  Hallie Ephron

  Writing, Preparation, Fiction

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• Write what you care about, what interests and intrigues you.

  Hallie Ephron

  Writing, Care, Intrigue

  Hallie Ephron (2005). “Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel”, p.17, Writer's Digest Books

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

  Hallie Ephron

  Comfort, Kind, Novel

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• 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 Montgomery's The Blue Castle.

  Hallie Ephron

  Mother, Book, Blue

  "Coming of Age with the Ephron Sisters—and Their Mother" by Hallie Ephron, www.oprah.com. March 2013.

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• 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.

  Hallie Ephron

  Dark, Men, Eight

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• Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.

  Hallie Ephron

  Mother, Book, House

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

  Hallie Ephron

  Wise, Cracked, Hepburn

  "Coming of Age with the Ephron Sisters—and Their Mother" by Hallie Ephron, www.oprah.com. March 2013.

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