Hallie Ephron
Hallie Ephron
Hallie Ephronis an American novelist, book reviewer, journalist, and writing teacher. She is the author of nine novels. Her novels Never Tell a Lie, There Was an Old Woman, and Come and Find Me were finalists for the Mary Higgins Clark Award. In 2011, Never Tell a Lie was made into a Lifetime television movie entitled And Baby Will Fall, starring Anastasia Griffith, Brendan Fehr, and Clea DuVall...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
truth imagine truth-is
The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines.
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Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.
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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.
courage gives putting
Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
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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.
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I'm someone who sits at a computer eight hours a day, and I look in that pinhole camera at the top of my screen and think, 'Someone could be watching me.'
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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.