Quotes by J. Courtney Sullivan

About J. Courtney Sullivan:

Julie Courtney Sullivan is an American novelist and former writer for The New York Times.
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How could a person have and do all these stupid things--clip coupons and double lock the front door--and then one day just cease to exist?

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These fucking women really piss me off,' April said. 'Because instead of being elated by the thought of making their own happiness and chasing some crazy dream, all they want to do is narrow their options and do something safe.

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With the Smithies, it was different. There was sometimes no telling where one of them began and the others left off.

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

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She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.

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If things had been different, she would be in Carolyn's place right now. She didn't want that sort of existence, but there was something so attractive about the security of feeling like you had stopped moving toward your life, and actually arrived.

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We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.

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The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations between men and women were all soft kisses and white gowns and hand-holding. But underneath they were a scary, complicated, ugly mess, just waiting to ...

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Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of making a woman's life everyone else's business--you have t...

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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.

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

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

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I love the smell of a man's skin.

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When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.

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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.

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

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

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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...

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameJ. Courtney Sullivan
  • DescriptionNovelist
  • Born1982
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Author; Novelist