Pulitzers Quotes & Sayings

To intuit is to retrieve subconscious memories, which is why experience is the mother of intuition. — Pablo De Santis

I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world. — Suheir Hammad

I have often noticed how primate groups in their entirety enter a similar mood. All of a sudden, all of them are playful, hopping around. Or all of them are grumpy. Or all of them are sleepy and settle down. In such cases, the mood contagion serves the function of synchronizing activities. — Frans De Waal

You can keep your Streisands. — Rod Stewart

At certain times each year, we journalists do almost nothing except apply for the Pulitzers and several dozen other major prizes. During these times you could walk right into most newsrooms and commit a multiple axe murder naked, and it wouldn't get reported in the paper because the reporters and editors would all be too busy filling out prize applications. — Dave Barry

A tendency to make metaphorical connections is an occupational hazard for those of us who write. — Alice McDermott

For some, a hero wears a spandex suit and a cape. My heroes wear flak jackets, flight suits, and combat boots. — Oliver North

'NewsHour' is very interested in poetry, but they're also interested in not just that something's cute to add on at the end of their programming, but something that actually is integrated into the news. — Natasha Trethewey

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt. — Gerald Brenan

There are books that speak to us of our own lives with a clarity we cannot match. They prevent the morose suspicion that we do not fully belong to the species, that we lie beyond comprehension. Our embarrassments, our sulks, our envy, our feelings of guilt, these phenomena are conveyed in Austen in a way that affords us bursts of almost magical self-recognition. The author has located words to depict a situation we thought ourselves alone in feeling, and for a few moments, we see ourselves more clearly and wish to become whom the author would have wanted us to be. — Alain De Botton

The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Do they give Pulitzers for tweets yet? — Natasha Leggero

Many fans don't have the leisure time to track my every word. They're too busy brainstorming solutions to the economic crisis and winning Pulitzers. — Michael Showalter

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