Phrase by 'Hallie Ephron'

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

Author: Hallie Ephron - American Novelist
  Like , Wise , Looked , Cracked


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.

Author: Hallie Ephron - American Novelist
  Me , Start , Important , Sister


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

Author: Hallie Ephron - American Novelist
  Man , Women , Light , Blue


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

Author: Hallie Ephron - American Novelist
  Me , Best , Good , Food


When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.

Author: Hallie Ephron - American Novelist
  You , Back , Situation , Surprise


Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.

Author: Hallie Ephron - American Novelist
  Start , Old , Late , Suspense


As we got older, we grew comfortable in roles that met our parents' expectations. Nora was the smart one. Delia, the comedian. I was the pretty, obedient one. And Amy was the adventurous mischief-maker.

Author: Hallie Ephron - American Novelist
  Pretty , Parents , Smart , Expectations


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.'

Author: Hallie Ephron - American Novelist
  Book , Mother , Blue , Ready


I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table.

Author: Hallie Ephron - American Novelist
  Me , Family , Mother , Dinner


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.

Author: Hallie Ephron - American Novelist
  You , I Am , Happy , Jealousy


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