Sarah Vowell Quotes
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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The tabernacle of unity hath been raised; regard ye not one another as strangers.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.
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I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
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I just write mechanical things.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
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I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.
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My method is, I just sit down and write a book.
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... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.
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My parents are opposites who balance each other out.
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It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."
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I never was shy, but as far as telling jokes, I'm the worst. I like physical comedy; it's where I feel comfortable.
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No one I know actually reads what I write, so thank heavens for you strangers.
