Literary Award Quotes

#1. THE AWARD CEREMONY is held at a high school in Hyannis. Though it's just a gymnasium (the scent of balls of both varieties is still palpable) and the ceremony hasn't started yet, everyone speaks in hushed tones, like it's church. Something important and literary is about to happen here.

Gabrielle Zevin

#2. If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve ... If I was gay, at this stage of the game?age 37, aging alternative icon?I'd be taking out ads.

Henry Rollins

#3. Life has no destination; it is the greatest journey with the greatest intention.

Debasish Mridha

#4. If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

Olivier Martinez

#5. Kings and philosophers shit - and so do ladies.

Michel De Montaigne

#6. There are no miracles on Mondays.

Amy Neftzger

#7. She shakes him; that is what she presumable does to other readers too. That is, presumably why, in the larger picture, she exists. What a strange reward for a lifetime of shaking people: to be conveyed to this town in Pennsylvania and given money!

J.M. Coetzee

#8. I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.

May Sarton

#9. One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.

Victor LaValle

#10. Journalism is irrepressible. It can't be taken away.

Josh Fox

#11. I learned that all things come to those who wait-provided they hustle while they wait.

James Cash Penney

#12. Don't be a fool! Close this book at once! It is nothing but foma!
Foma, of course, are lies.

Kurt Vonnegut