Syme's Letter Writer Quotes

“One persistent piece of New York writerly lore is that the filmmaker and enthusiastic foodie Nora Ephron wrote a secret cookbook that she only shared with friends and neighbors. It was—according to whispers from those who claim to have seen a copy—full of quippy, gossipy commentary about salad dressing and baked chicken. I believe it exists, mostly because I think that Ephron, despite being a very public person, understood the power of clandestine communication. She did write the film You’ve Got Mail, after”
― Rachel Syme, Syme's Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence About (Almost) Every Imaginable Subject of Daily Life, with Odes to Desktop Ephemera and Selected Letters of Famous Writers