Before Quote by John Jeremiah Sullivan

Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

“If we put aside the self-awareness standard -- and really, how arbitrary and arrogant is that, to take the attribute of consciousness we happen to…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

I'm just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

The justification for rap rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it, the result…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time.

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

The initial research will be very indiscriminate. I do a lot of reading, buy a stack of books and read and digest them, and…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

One of the best things I’ve read about that inexplicably, but endlessly, fascinating group of people, the so-called Serious Collectors of 78s. Petrusich burrows…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

The greenness of Ireland is a false greenness, after all. Not that it isn't green - the place can still make you have to…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

This is why you can never reason true Christians out of the faith. It's not, as the adage has it, because they were never…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

Thinking you're a genius is death.

— John Jeremiah Sullivan