Today is yet another riveting day at work. I'm listening to Ram by Paul McCartney, Virna Lindt's Shiver, and a whole slew of Todd Edwards' discography. In catching up with my Bear Blogging peers1, I read this post by Zeina dissecting the famous quote by Nora Ephron, everything is copy. Now, I'm well aware of Ephron's presence as an avid rom-com fan, however I'd never read this quote of hers up until now. I proceeded to go down a teeny rabbit hole of people's interpretations. Unfortunately I can't watch the same-titled documentary of her son Jacob Bernstein's while on the job, but it's definitely on the watchlist. In this post by Jim Carroll, I found a quote from Ephron curated by him that really helped me understand just what she meant by this line. Writers are cannibals… They are predators. And if you are friends with them and say something funny at dinner, or if anything good happens to you, you are in big trouble. In creating at large, everything is on the table. I have two great…
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