Literary Awards Quotes

#1. I approached writing a story for the CBC Literary Awards as a mercenary venture - $5,000 for one story, not bad. Now, how do you win it? Jurors are wading through skyscrapers of paper, looking for one story that stands out.

Michael Winter

#2. I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British, and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I'm regarded as one of their own in Japan.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#3. Al-Qaida is a worldwide organization. It's a continuous threat.

Jose Rodriguez

#4. She is like the rain that loosens the scent from things.

Glenn Haybittle

#5. The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.

Michael Moorcock

#6. I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.

Frank Zappa

#7. I thought I could organise freedom/How Scandinavian of me ...

Bjork

#8. 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

#9. Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

Rachel Cusk

#10. It's just that ... without the memories it's all meaningless.

Lois Lowry

#11. Looking at the mother, you might hope that the daughter would become like her, which is a prospective advantage equal to a dowry - the mother too often standing behind the daughter like a malignant prophecy - Such as I am, she will shortly be.

George Eliot

#12. Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?

William Butler Yeats

#13. I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.

Adam Baldwin

#14. Physically, I'm healthy as a horse, always held up. But in the mental illness department, I got my share. It's just what I got.

Shawn Colvin

#15. There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

Jodi Picoult

#16. Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?

Robert A. Cook

#17. Zeus is the king, right? (Simone)
He thinks he is most days. Personally, I think he's a pompous ass who should be bitch-slapped by Hera at least once in his existence. (Xypher)

Sherrilyn Kenyon