J. Courtney Sullivan Quotes

J. Courtney Sullivan — American Novelist born on December 30, 1982,

Julie Courtney Sullivan, better known as J. Courtney Sullivan, is an American novelist and former writer for The New York Times... (wikipedia)

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.

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.

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

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

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