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.
writing care intrigue
Write what you care about, what interests and intrigues you.
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Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.
writing preparation fiction
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.
dark men light
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 sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
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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.
given great love molly someday wonderful writer
I haven't given any thought to collaborating with my sisters. It would be great fun. My daughter Molly is a wonderful writer - someday I'd love to collaborate with her.
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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.