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 Read Quote
Going to any place that you view as more politically oppressed than your own country, there’s a weird tendency to assume that the whole existence is determined minute by minute by the political reality, but of course, that’s not the case for any of us. John Jeremiah Sullivan Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
As the planet warms, evolution speeds. We’ve known this for a long time. John Jeremiah Sullivan Read Quote
The initial research will be very indiscriminate. I do a lot of reading, buy a stack of books and read and digest them, and then I start doing phone interviews and archival research and then the travelling. John Jeremiah Sullivan Read Quote
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 Read Quote
