Booker Prize Quotes

#1. [On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize:] I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize.

Bernice Rubens

#2. I'll always struggle over saying I'm a writer, even if I won the Booker Prize.

Sonya Hartnett

#3. My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it.

Martin Amis

#4. I'd like to win a Booker Prize for writing. A Nobel Peace Prize for my work in peace ... and I think that'll probably do.

Billy Boyd

#5. The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.

John Banville

#6. Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily.

Eleanor Catton

#7. The Commonwealth Prize is about celebrating the Commonwealth and the special relationship we have with the ex-colonies - which is part guilt and part warmth - and the Booker Prize isn't an essential part of that, but it is part of that.

Jim Crace

#8. People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#9. To discard what is unwanted, and to retain what is needed, is what reform means.

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#10. Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.

Ian McEwan

#11. Days she's wasted locked up here in this room, and nothing she's done is half as good as the sketch of a chair she did while shitting her pants.

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. I love the Tea Party. They are the ultimate beer goggles. They make everything look better.

Bill Maher

#13. People in New York just seem a lot more open than I thought they would be.

Carey Mulligan

#14. Bed sheet, if you please. I'll leave my dignity here.

Frank Tuttle

#15. I like to live my life so that my loved ones give me the things I need as gifts and I give them the things they need. Frankly a society built around consumerism is hell

Vandana Shiva

#16. I noticed that in a corner, across from where they ate with such innocent relish, sitting forlorn and abandoned, was the ghost of their son. He had lost both of his arms, one side of his face was squashed, and both his eyes had burst. He had bluish wings. He was the saddest ghost in the house.

Ben Okri