Quotes About Literary Prizes

#1. I want to be the first one to show you everything and to be the one you'll always remember for the rest of your life.

Penelope Ward

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

Beryl Dov

#3. People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

Calvin Trillin

#4. It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life.

Henry Walter Bates

#5. Whatever. So how is all this brilliant knowledge supposed to help me control the explody thing?" "Explody thing?" Jenny said. I nodded. "It's a technical term.

A&E Kirk

#6. Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books.

Richard Flanagan

#7. Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Walter Scott

#8. It's not about fancy literary prizes. It's not about seeming impenetrable or smart or high fallutin. I'm not trying to impress anyone. I am trying to make you feel a story, that's all.

Maggie Stiefvater

#9. I consider myself the luckiest man in the world. I have spent a lifetime doing what I love.

Len Wein

#10. I think that is the very definition of a family: a group of individuals, bound by the essence of love, who share a life together and yet maintain their unique individuality.

Kathy Magliato

#11. I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world.

Richard Flanagan

#12. Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.

Lillian Russell

#13. I think humans have always wrestled with the Divine Idea - an idea that unites and separates, creates and destroys, consoles and terrifies. Throughout human history, it is an idea that seems sometimes to have caused whole populations to rise up and slaughter one another.

Robert Winston

#14. It's not like you do 'SNL' and then get handed movie roles. You work, you audition for stuff and try to get it. I think, a lot of people, it's the goal to be in movies or just to be working in general. But yeah, some of us get lucky and get some movie roles, and it's nice.

Bobby Moynihan

#15. In a world of iPads and emails, nothing has really changed in the theatre. You still get in an hour early, do your wardrobe, put an old pair of tights under your wig, and you have, 'This is your call, Miss Jensen'. I got exhilarated by that.

Ashley Jensen

#16. There are celebrated literary lions who've won Pulitzers and Booker prizes for ideas that Dick would toss aside in an early chapter, but ... oh, what's the use. You evidently already know the score, because you're reading this.

Philip K. Dick

#17. You always think everything is so easy," Royce replied, wiping his eyes.
"I'm just a glass-half-full kinda guy. How's your glass looking these days?"
"I have no idea. I'm still trying to get over the sheer size of it.

Michael J. Sullivan

#18. Why is someone only passionate about books if they're into literary books that win prizes? Why can't you be passionate about books and only read romance?

Harriet Evans

#19. No back in the history of football was ever worth two fumbles a game.

Woody Hayes

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

Michael Moorcock

#21. Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books.

Richard Flanagan

#22. I'm afraid your literary prizes don't give you any jurisdiction in this particular instance, sir.

Lizzie K. Foley