Nora Ephron passed away on 26th of June, at the age of 71. She wrote, directed, and produced many movies. My favourites are (no points for guessing) Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail (both Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan starrers), followed by When Harry Met Sally, though that is an older movie.

Of course, Ephron wrote and directed many more movies - the last one being Julie and Julia in 2009, starring Maryl Streep and Amy Adams. A brilliant performance from Maryl Streep, as always. Amy Adams is good, too.

Besides movies, Ephron wrote many books - the last one in 2010 - on getting older "I remember nothing ..and other reflections".

Some of the quotes by Ephron:

Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”

― Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

 

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

― Nora Ephron

 

I am living in the Google years, no question of that. And there are advantages to it. When you forget something, you can whip out your iPhone and go to Google. The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn't it? By handling the obligations of the search mechanism, you almost prove you can keep up....

You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).”

― Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

 

Nora Ephron was clearly a woman with so many talents, and I have yet to read all her books and see all her movies.

 

She will be sorely missed by many.