"As a young journalist I thought that stories were simply what happened. As a screenwriter I realized that we create stories by imposing narrative on the events that happen around us." That's Nora Ephron in "Telling True Stories," quoted on Nieman Storyboard three days after her death. For a longer read on Ephron, see Tom Junod's Esquire essay on what her evolution from journalist to screenwriter and director meant to fellow magazine writers.
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