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Hallie Ephron
American
Novelist
Born:
1948
Day
First
Me
Mother
Time
Writing
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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.
Hallie Ephron
Man
Woman
Women
Words
Dark
Light
Walks
Says
She
Blue
Eight
Room
Notices
Figure
Million
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.
Hallie Ephron
Me
Writing
Important
Sister
Everyone
Most
Terms
Important Person
Encouraging
Person
The Most Important
Lucky
Start
Thinks
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.
Hallie Ephron
Family
Me
Mother
Language
Pressure
Dinner
Parents
Living
Think
Incredibly
Our
Books
Dinner Table
Table
Poetry
Write
House
Wrote
Verbal
Were
Up
Any
Anybody
Grew
Mean
Meant
Full
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.
Hallie Ephron
Jealousy
You
Happy
Book
Writing
Rule
Pointless
No-One
Read
Always
Am
Sisters
Get
Published
Competitiveness
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.'
Hallie Ephron
Day
Me
Think
Top
Someone
Could
Computer
Hours
Look
Camera
Screen
Eight
Who
Watching
Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
Hallie Ephron
Me
Courage
Training
Outline
Outlining
Gives
Write
Putting
Like
Always
Go
Off
Wheels
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.
Hallie Ephron
Love
Great
Wonderful
Thought
Daughter
Collaborate
Collaborating
Great Fun
Would
Would-Be
Someday
Given
Writer
Sisters
Any
Molly
Fun
Her
Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
Hallie Ephron
Mother
Our
Books
Out
Favorites
Like
House
Were
Which
Special
Her
Treats
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.
Hallie Ephron
Blame
Reality
People
Past
Back
Exact
Details
Something
Point
Point Of View
Because
Ambiguous
May
Often
Depends
In The Past
Happens
Frustrating
Far
View
Villain
Recall
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