A high percentage of each of my books has been written in Des Moines. — J. Courtney Sullivan Been Copy Share Image
“April's just a Dixie cup of crazy. Lydia's more like a twenty-gallon tank” — J. Courtney Sullivan April Copy Share Image
I've rejected certain books, then gone back later and loved them. — J. Courtney Sullivan Back Copy Share Image
“I exist in two places, here and where you are. —MARGARET ATWOOD,” — J. Courtney Sullivan Exist Copy Share Image
“Some women were created to make other women feel like shit about themselves.” — J. Courtney Sullivan Women Copy Share Image
Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind. — J. Courtney Sullivan Behinds Copy Share Image
When you write fiction, you're like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It's funny how… — J. Courtney Sullivan Bird Copy Share Image
“She didn't have a single friend on earth to see her off. She had outlived them all.” — J. Courtney Sullivan Friend Copy Share Image
I'm from outside of Boston, and in Boston, people are so passionate about their Irishness. — J. Courtney Sullivan About Copy Share Image
As a little girl, my dollhouse allowed me to imagine a big, perfect, grown-up life in which I'd be effortlessly domestic. — J. Courtney Sullivan Big Copy Share Image
She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men… — J. Courtney Sullivan Feminism Copy Share Image
A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder. — J. Courtney Sullivan Am Copy Share Image
“Men made mistakes and when they asked forgiveness, women forgave. It happened every day.” — J. Courtney Sullivan Every day Copy Share Image
“What would you have today if you woke up with only the things you thanked God for yesterday?” He wondered” — J. Courtney Sullivan Thanked God Copy Share Image
She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love,… — J. Courtney Sullivan Disappear Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, for example, everybody on our street was Irish. And all the girls did Irish step dancing. It… — J. Courtney Sullivan Dance Copy Share Image
“It was so bitter and sad, looking for safety in the person least likely to give it to you. Like drinking salt… — J. Courtney Sullivan Bitter Copy Share Image
“The outside pressure to be married was intense. This had surprised her a decade ago, but now she thought she understood. People… — J. Courtney Sullivan Marriage Copy Share Image
A kid thinks her mother is just that -- hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who doesn't want… — J. Courtney Sullivan Affair Copy Share Image
My relationship with the 'Baby-Sitters Club' series bordered on addiction, and my mom got me heavily into the Trixie Belden mysteries as… — J. Courtney Sullivan Cute Copy Share Image
“You all seem to think you should marry someone when you feel this intense emotion, which you call love. And then you… — J. Courtney Sullivan Birth Copy Share Image
She remembered how she had felt cleaning out her father's clothes, wanting at once to hold on to every dirty handkerchief and… — J. Courtney Sullivan Cleaning Copy Share Image
“The things she worried about on a daily basis included but were not limited to: Children starving in Africa. Chemicals in her… — J. Courtney Sullivan Cared Copy Share Image
“Sometimes April worried that she'd been built without some fundamental piece that everyone else had that just let them deal. Even her… — J. Courtney Sullivan April Copy Share Image
I knew that my dollhouse was a toy, but in a way, it seemed more like a portal to adulthood. I didn't… — J. Courtney Sullivan Barbie Copy Share Image
“He existed, then he didn’t. The world spins on, indifferent to the mess.” — J. Courtney Sullivan Existed Copy Share Image
I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations. — J. Courtney Sullivan Communication Copy Share Image
“The moment a woman was born determined so much of who she was allowed to become.” — J. Courtney Sullivan Determined Copy Share Image
I've never understood why some people think it's virtuous and essential to finish every book they start. — J. Courtney Sullivan Book Copy Share Image
“Someone could save your life without you ever knowing it. It happened more than most people realized.” — J. Courtney Sullivan Life Copy Share Image
One of the best parts of being a writer is getting to peer into other worlds - even if you aren't going… — J. Courtney Sullivan Being Copy Share Image
“even if there was no God there was always the ocean- before you and after you, breathing in and out for all… — J. Courtney Sullivan Eternity Copy Share Image
On Saturdays, I get up early, spread out my notes from the week on the kitchen table, and create stories from them. — J. Courtney Sullivan Create Copy Share Image
