Nobel Prize In Literature Quotes

#1. George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other social sciences, sociology, psychology, history, etc. "Don't worry", Stigler said, "they have already have a Nobel Prize in ... Literature"

Robert Kuttner

#2. If I were to win the Nobel Prize in Literature - which I think it's fairly safe to say is not going to happen - I would still expect the headline on my obituary to read: 'Christopher Buckley, son of William F. Buckley, Jr., is dead at 78.'

Christopher Buckley

#3. I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

George Bernard Shaw

#4. Nobel Prize in Literature [10w]
Only fools and Swedes equate literary prizes with literary merit.

Beryl Dov

#5. Science has eliminated distance.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#6. My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if I want to get to Sweden in time to pick up my Nobel Prize for Literature, I had better ring for breakfast. This occurs rather less often than one might wish.

Fran Lebowitz

#7. The purpose for a tax system is to collect needed revenue at the least cost to the people.

Edward C. Prescott

#8. Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking.

Chris Crutcher

#9. The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come back, because caged lions don't mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you
must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.

T.D. Jakes

#10. Churchill drank twice what I did if you could believe the accounts and he had just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. I was simply trying to step up my drinking to a reasonable amount when I might win the Prize myself; who knows?

Ernest Hemingway,

#11. Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

Taylor Dane

#12. The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might have to go through if they were taken captive, they will inoculate themselves.

Jane Mayer

#13. Hutte was always saying that, in the end, we are all "beach men" and that "the sand"--I am quoting his own words-- keeps the traces of our footsteps only a few moment

Patrick Modiano

#14. Winning the Nobel Prize does not automatically qualify you to be commander in chief. I think George Bush has proved definitively that to be president, you don't need to care about science, literature or peace.

Stephen Colbert

#15. On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me.

Patrick Modiano

#16. A Pulitzer Prize is awaiting the journalist who can find an American who dies of hunger, and probably the Nobel Prize for literature as well.

Tom Bethell

#17. Human reasoning can never answer the mysteries of our lives.

Caroline Myss

#18. And I howled at that swarm and the crops and the sky, and the stars should have quit because there weren't no reason to be shining.

Chris Howard

#19. I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.

Tana French

#20. The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

Naguib Mahfouz

#21. The sadness of death lies in the fact that it cannot be reversed. Cherish the world of the living whilst you have it, for you cannot visit there again.

Sulari Gentill

#22. The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.

Aaron Ciechanover

#23. It's quite clear : an outsider can, on principle, only value foreign literature that translates well; the truly great artists of language and the fecund experimenters are inaccessible to him; are usually unknown to him in fact !

Arno Schmidt

#24. Jessica Simpson is the youth ambassador for Operation Smile, and an episode of The Apprentice featured a team managing a charity concert she put on. Donald Trump came on stage and pledged a donation.

Roma Downey

#25. The letters dance before my eyes. Who am I?

Patrick Modiano

#26. Our date-nightrule is no talking about the kids. That lasts about to the end of the driveway.

Paul Reiser

#27. No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer

Naguib Mahfouz

#28. I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.

David Eddings

#29. Jump up, look around, find yourself some fun. No sense in sitting there hating everyone.

Jethro Tull

#30. It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.

William Faulkner

#31. He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.

Walter Winchell

#32. Aren't lazy or unwilling to work: they just don't know how to free themselves from the welfare security blanket.

Ronald Reagan