2014 National Book Awards Quotes

#1. I'm not a big fan of mediocre.

Marcia Gay Harden

#2. My own mother fought to make herself more than a possession; she lived her life as a mother who chose when she would have children, and a wife who could earn a living if she so chose. I want my daughters to enjoy that same choice.

Mark Ruffalo

#3. I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#4. We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#5. Whose sons would cling bold to the craggy heights of war

Euripides

#6. As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

Jean De La Bruyere

#7. Most of our life we pass by waiting for tomorrow, but not living for today.

Debasish Mridha

#8. I think I related more literally to the early 'Spider-Man' comics from Steve Ditko because it could be upfront and direct about the problems of being a kid. He captured being a teenager so beautifully.

Gilbert Hernandez