25 J. Courtney Sullivan Quotes for You to Enjoy

J. Courtney Sullivan

American Novelist

Born: 1982

Love Me Think Time Writing You

Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats. J. Courtney Sullivan

Time Sleepless Circumstance Poetry Parker Thunderstorm Read Without Pass Yeats Heartache Dictates Dorothy Little Much Night

Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets. J. Courtney Sullivan

Myself Character Me Value Later Worrying Character Development Characters Find About Week Through Perfection Development Feel Most Reader Sort Real Close Walking Author Manage Gets Store Fiction While Create Grocery Grocery Store Who Fully

I knew that my dollhouse was a toy, but in a way, it seemed more like a portal to adulthood. I didn't play with it the way I might with my Barbie dream house. Instead, I furnished it. I kept it pristine. I decorated the house for each season. I had jack-o'-lanterns in the fall and a Christmas tree with working lights in the winter. J. Courtney Sullivan

Christmas Winter Fall Christmas Tree Tree Furnished Way Dream Seemed More Had Adulthood Knew Instead Lights Like Toy House Pristine Might Barbie Decorated Working Each Season Play Kept

The first book I bought was 'Anne of Green Gables,' an edition that is beautiful and complete - one I hope to read with my son someday, seeing it anew through his eyes. J. Courtney Sullivan

Beautiful Hope Eyes Son Book First Complete Anew Seeing Someday Through Bought Anne Read Edition His Green

Deep down, I have always been 72 years old. In college, my friends used to make fun of me because I would sometimes skip a Friday night party to stay in my dorm room watching Turner Classic Movies. J. Courtney Sullivan

Me Sometimes Old College Party Down Would Stay Classic Make Because Always Been Years Friday Friday Night Friends Dorm Movies Room Turner Used Skip Deep Fun Deep Down Watching Night

For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not. J. Courtney Sullivan

World Care Girl Feminism Whatever Young Think Totally About Outlets Various Individuals Over Talk Making Committed Anymore Young Girls Reason

A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder. J. Courtney Sullivan

Book Gives True Glimpse Mostly Am Impression Stand Night

I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations. J. Courtney Sullivan

Sometimes Hopeless Strangers Easily Distracted Read Get Conversations Subway

In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become. J. Courtney Sullivan

Phone School Car Thought Long Become Fall High Dinners High School Cheap Because Boy Least Were Began Pizza Conversations Suburban Might Who Rides Marathon Actually

I love the smell of a man's skin. J. Courtney Sullivan

Love Man Smell Skin

I love making lists. J. Courtney Sullivan

Love Making Lists

My relationship with the 'Baby-Sitters Club' series bordered on addiction, and my mom got me heavily into the Trixie Belden mysteries as well. Trixie Belden was like Nancy Drew, but without the boyfriends and cute outfits, which I think is the reason my mother preferred her. J. Courtney Sullivan

I'm from outside of Boston, and in Boston, people are so passionate about their Irishness. J. Courtney Sullivan

People About Boston Outside Passionate

When I was growing up, for example, everybody on our street was Irish. And all the girls did Irish step dancing. It was pre-Lord of the Dance - it was before anybody knew what gillys were - but we did, and there was such pride among the members of my family and people I grew up with. J. Courtney Sullivan

Family People Pride Dance Girl Example Before Everybody Our Dancing Members Step Knew For Example Were Up Irish Did Anybody Grew Growing Growing Up Among Street

I am intrigued by the way secrets move through a family and how events and perceptions from decades earlier continue to influence the way relatives view each other. Homes shape family histories as well. J. Courtney Sullivan

For my seventh birthday, my parents gave me a plain, unfinished wooden dollhouse. It had six empty rooms, two floors, a staircase, and a door that swung out onto a little front stoop. The windows opened, and the roof retracted on one side, revealing an attic. J. Courtney Sullivan

Birthday Me Unfinished Roof Parents Gave Side Seventh Out Windows Onto Had Opened Attic Empty Revealing Front Six Stoop Wooden Door Staircase Little Plain Rooms Floors Swung Two

When you write fiction, you're like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It's funny how things come back to you. J. Courtney Sullivan

Funny You Remember Bird Every Back Nest Write Come Like How Making Fiction Story Little Ever Things

I've always been drawn to older women. J. Courtney Sullivan

Women Older Drawn Always Been Older Women

A high percentage of each of my books has been written in Des Moines. J. Courtney Sullivan

Books Has-Been High High Percentage Percentage Written Been Des Moines Each

I still think of myself as a Bostonian. J. Courtney Sullivan

Myself Think Still

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