J. Courtney Sullivan Quotes

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.

J. Courtney Sullivan

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• Kitchen
• Drinking
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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.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • English
  • Author
  • Kitchen