Literary Awards Quotes

#1. It's just that ... without the memories it's all meaningless. - Author: Lois Lowry

#2. Al-Qaida is a worldwide organization. It's a continuous threat. - Author: Jose Rodriguez

#3. She is like the rain that loosens the scent from things. - Author: Glenn Haybittle

#4. The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit. - Author: Michael Moorcock

#5. I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment. - Author: Frank Zappa

#6. 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. - Author: Michael Winter

#7. I thought I could organise freedom/How Scandinavian of me ... - Author: 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! - Author: J.M. Coetzee

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

#10. 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) - Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

#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. - Author: George Eliot

#12. 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. - Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

#13. Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? - Author: William Butler Yeats

#14. I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me. - Author: Adam Baldwin

#15. 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. - Author: Shawn Colvin

#16. There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success. - Author: Jodi Picoult

#17. 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? - Author: Robert A. Cook