It's only been recently that I've become semi-convinced that you can (earn a living as a writer). -Sarah Vowell

 

It's only been recently that I've become semi-convinced that you can (earn a living as a writer).


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This quote is just one of 8 total Sarah Vowell quotes in our collection. Sarah Vowell is known for saying 'It's only been recently that I've become semi-convinced that you can (earn a living as a writer).' as well as some of the following quotes.

It was such a great time for music. Being in college radio in the '80s, R.E.M. just happened, Elvis Costello was going strong. The biggest, most famous Seattle band was the Young Fresh Fellows. Our town was halfway between Seattle and Minneapolis on I-90, and so we got tons of shows just by virtue of being the gas-money stop on I-90.

Sarah Vowell

I make my living half as a critic, so I think that opinionated would be a good thing for a critic to be. And I think crankiness has some sort of connotation of individualism.

Sarah Vowell

I probably am a cranky writer, but I am actually a fairly nice, normal person. Since I'm a grouchy writer, of course I have friends whose books are doing way better than mine.

Sarah Vowell

In my real life I'm more of a walking Woody Allen movie. I'm afraid to drive and I can't swim and all that stuff so it is incredibly thrilling and fun to listen to my voice do things that, when it's in my regular body, it would never get to do.

Sarah Vowell

[In] Shooting Dad, ... There were years and years when he hid out by himself in the garage making rifle barrels and I holed up in my room reading Allen Ginsberg poems, and we were incapable of having a conversation that didn't end in an argument.

Sarah Vowell