Epigram Books Fiction Prize Quotes

#1. When I got a little older I was obsessed Lil Wayne. But then it was just as many British rappers - Dizzee Rascal I would always listen to.

Tinie Tempah

#2. I don't like being out of the crowd. It's lonely within a group.

Julie Walters

#3. Increased responsibility for babies and young children has proved just as restrictive, if not more so, than sexism in the home or in the workplace.

Elisabeth Badinter

#4. It may be no surprise that Pittsburgh has direct flights to London, Paris and Frankfurt, but consider this: many of the tourists here have come from Europe to the capital of culture in the Alleghenies.

Bill Dedman

#5. Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.

Jeannette Walls

#6. Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.

Zig Ziglar

#7. His hair was permed and gelled like a New Jersey girl's on homecoming night.
Percy Jackson

Rick Riordan

#8. White froth bubbles from the mouth of Chow Sze Teck. The airconditioner is still running and the room is dark. Slumped over the mahogany desk in his study, the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Housing is, as always, immaculately dressed.

Wong Souk Yee

#9. There were three things Gimme Lao did not know about himself.

Sebastian Sim

#10. In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche