J. Courtney Sullivan

I've always been drawn to older women.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

I still think of myself as a Bostonian.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

I love the smell of a man's skin.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

I love the smell of a mans skin.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

I love making lists.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“for everything that was wrong with men.”

— J. Courtney Sullivan

There were so many ways to be twenty-six years old.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“Some women were created to make other women feel like shit about themselves.”

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“I exist in two places, here and where you are. —MARGARET ATWOOD,”

— J. Courtney Sullivan

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“He existed, then he didn’t. The world spins on, indifferent to the mess.”

— J. Courtney Sullivan

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

— J. Courtney Sullivan

I've rejected certain books, then gone back later and loved them.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

It's true of Irish Catholic families. They're big on story telling and big on saving stories from one generation to the next.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“You could sell crack on the street and go to jail for decades. Or you could sell a woman, and be back…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“All over the planet women were being tormented, yet if you took sexism seriously, you were a bore, an idiot, or a…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“It felt something like being in love, but without the weight of having to choose just one heart to hold on to,…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“awake. James would force himself to close his eyes. For the next few hours, he’d lie there, thrashing around, trying to get…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

Every St. Patrick's Day in my hometown is such a huge thing. You know, it was like Christmas, but in green.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“Once this kid came into the world, Sally knew, she would live in constant terror of somehow injuring or losing her. Having…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“Now she saw that marriage was like being in a three-legged race with the same person for the rest of your life.…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

There's a Dar Williams song about 'houses that are haunted, with the kids who lie awake and think about other generations past…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

I am intrigued by the way secrets move through a family and how events and perceptions from decades earlier continue to influence…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“You want your kids to do better than you did," he said. "That's what the American Dream is all about. But it's…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“Her mother… told Kate that after women got out of lousy marriages, they generally had the good sense to stay away from…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“She often wondered what the hell was wrong with men. Sex could be fun, natural, good. Why did they have to corrupt…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

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

“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

“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's just a Dixie cup of crazy. Lydia's more like a twenty-gallon tank”

— J. Courtney Sullivan

When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that she’d give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“No one can ever know the inner parts of anyone else’s marriage. It’s a strange business.”

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“It was amazing that you did not become your grief entirely, and walk about leaking it everywhere.”

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“How could a person have and do all these stupid things--clip coupons and double lock the front door--and then one day just…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“The moment a woman was born determined so much of who she was allowed to become.”

— J. Courtney Sullivan