Literary Award Quotes & Sayings

Ah women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. — Susan Andersen

I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself. — May Sarton

There is no such thing as 'staying in shape;' you either work to get better, or you allow yourself to get worse. — John Kessel

Vhat is your nom?" Preston had a lazy eye, and the alcohol added to the lopsided effect of his gaze.
"Shannon Tinker, and I watch you like you're a TV show." Shannon added a bop to her stance, unconsciously dancing to the beat of the song constantly playing in her head. — Debra Anastasia

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

It's like Southern chicks saying bless your heart. What they actually mean is you're an idiot. — Lexi Blake

Writing is not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy. — Jamaica Kincaid

It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more. — Ken Kesey

I don't believe I can let this subject pass by leaving my own conflicted emotions unconfessed. When Carl Sagan won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1978, I dismissed it as a minor achievement for a scientist, scarcely worth listing. When I won the same prize the following year, it wondrously became a major literary award of which scientists should take special note. — Edward O. Wilson

And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts. — Lloyd Cutler

Woolf turned her back on a number of tokens of her rising eminence in the 1930s, including an offer of the Companion of Honour award, an invitation from Cambridge University to give the Clark lectures, and honorary doctorate degrees from Manchester University and Liverpool University.
'It is an utterly corrupt society,' she wrote in her diary, '. . . & I will take nothing that it can give me — Jane Goldman

She and her mother both gave that odd impression of having been outlined somehow, drawn with such vivid strokes and delicate detail that they stood out from their background as though they'd been engraved on it. — Diana Gabaldon

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

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

Stress is what feeds your cancer. Stress is what gives you cancer and then there's the paparazzi giving you stress. — Farrah Fawcett

Certainly the attrition rate of Hollywood couples looms large. — Brad Pitt

I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it incredibly. — Ajahn Chah

Don't sacrifice a good life for a good time. — Michael Josephson