John Jeremiah Sullivan quotes

Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point. (John Jeremiah Sullivan)

Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch.

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 island.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

I want to stay in touch with what I have in common with my subjects, with the places where are equally implicated with whatever is wrong with the culture.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

I'm a passionate believer in revision, and a lot of my writing gets done during revision process. It isn't just tweaking: I tend to break it apart and remake it every time I do a new draft.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Thinking you're a genius is death.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

At 'GQ,' there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.

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 New Albany, Ind.

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 pull off and swallow one of your heart pills. It's that the greenness doesn't mean what it seems. It doesn't encode a pastoral past, much less a timeless vale where wee folk trip the demesne. (John Jeremiah Sullivan)

John Jeremiah Sullivan

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Occupation: American Writer
Born: 1974
Quotes count: 11