Writer’s Desk: Nora Ephron on Getting Paid

[image error]The salty yet ever-cherubic Nora Ephron was born this week in 1941 in New York, the city that she chronicled as well as just about any other writer of the century.

She started out as an ink-stained wretch at Newsweek and the New York Post before moving on to books (Heartburn) and writing and sometimes directing romantic comedies (When Harry Met Sally).

In 1974, before any of that came about, she was interviewed by Writer’s Digest—here’s some of what she had to say to young writers:

First of a...