Sarah Koenig Quotes & Sayings

You know how everyone - there's this maxim that we all become our mother or we all become our parents. And, generally, I really wouldn't mind becoming my mother. I really like her, so I wouldn't mind becoming her. But I definitely need to edit her. — Sarah Koenig

I've been a radio reporter for ten years, and if I learned anything from my time at 'This American Life,' it's how to craft a narrative so that even if the ending is ambiguous, it is somehow satisfying. — Sarah Koenig

I think that if journalists, reporters who spend a lot of time on a story, are honest with themselves, we all have feelings about our subjects - I mean, unless you're a robot. — Sarah Koenig

If he could go back, choose another career, my father would have liked to have been an environmentalist of some kind, which is why he'd really like to be remembered for something almost nobody knows he did: naming Earth Day. It agitated him to look up Earth Day on Wikipedia recently and not see his name anywhere. So a few days ago, I added it. — Sarah Koenig

If you go to probably any jury trial in Baltimore that involves violence, either an assault or murder, and watch the voir dire, to me, that's when you get a sense of what it's like to live in Baltimore. — Sarah Koenig

My father was a legendary copywriter. He wrote 'Timex Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking.' He named Earth Day 'Earth Day.' It falls on his birthday, April 22. Earth Day, birthday. So the idea came easily. — Sarah Koenig

I like stories where there's a center that's mushy and complicated. — Sarah Koenig

I love serialized stories of any kind. I'm a huge sucker for any kind of series. — Sarah Koenig

I'm thin-skinned in a way that's just dumb. — Sarah Koenig

It would be great to do a story and get somebody who is innocent out of jail. That's a wonderful thing. — Sarah Koenig

People just like a good crime story; they want to know who did it. — Sarah Koenig

Not to be weirdly glib, but as a reporter, you should be honest all the time. — Sarah Koenig