Lyn Lear Writing Book on Norman Lear’s Philosophy and Sayings As She Reflects on Her Late Husband’s Legacy (EXCLUSIVE)

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Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Lyn Lear has a favorite “Normanism” — the term coined to describe the late TV legend Norman Lear‘s various adages, sayings and maxims about life.

For Lyn, it was whenever Norman would offer his farewells by saying, “To be continued.” “It’s when people would leave, because he always wanted to see them again,” she says. “I like that idea of things continuing and growing and getting better.

That’s what I think he meant by that term.” Lyn Lear is currently compiling all of Norman Lear’s most memorable quotes and philosophies about life for a book that she hopes to publish in the next year. “Norman had written his memoirs [2014’s ““Even This I Get to Experience”], but he always wanted to write a book on his philosophy of life,” she says. “He had these wonderful Nomanisms like ‘over, next.’ As in, ‘when it’s over, it’s over, you gotta move on to next.’ There were so many of those, and so I’ve written them all down.” She says the book will capture her 40-year relationship with Lear (they met in 1984 and married in 1987) in addition to his impact on the world. “We bonded on a very spiritual but political level around freedom of speech,” she says. “And so I’m trying to put that together in a kind of memoir, autobiography, but also biography of Norman.

He was a very deeply spiritual man. He was a cultural Jew to the core, but he was really open to searching on all different levels.