J. Courtney Sullivan Quotes

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.

I get to do what I love every day. I get to crawl into someone else's head and I love that.

I've always been a writer.

Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.

I just want to sit in my room and write books.

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

I write novels and other things.

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.

The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief.

It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it.

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

What I do is write, and I try to write as closely as I can into what I call 'the mystery.'

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

If I knew a story page by page before I started writing it, I just wouldn't do it. The process of discovery is really important for my own enjoyment.

Each book first begins with a little idea.

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

That's a really good question - what is it like living with a writer? I guess it depends on the writer. You know what? They live in a fantasy world a lot of the time. My husband lives in a fantasy world.