Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases. — Jocelyn Bell Burnell Copy Share Image
Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future. — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit. — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one. — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid your literary prizes don't give you any jurisdiction in this particular instance, sir.” — Lizzie K. Foley Copy Share Image
I was excited to be nominated for the Grammy, but prizes are a little strange. — Kyle Gass Copy Share Image
The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“I go back to it, if only to remind myself that life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark… — Charles Glover Barkla Copy Share Image
If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer… — Melvin Calvin Copy Share Image
“How can the Book Award Judges’ decision be right when we know that submitting the same books to different panels will result… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
Prizes do not mean anything to me. I think it is more important to make a child aware of the existence of… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be wonderful if I won a helicopter in a crossword puzzle competition? There is not much hope though I am… — Leonora Carrington Copy Share Image
Look at the studio filled with glamorous merchandise. Fabulous and exciting bonus prizes. Thousands of dollars in cash. Over $150,000 just waiting… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
Thanks to social media like Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads, I can easily reach out to so many people. Being a writer gives… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
It's great to win a few prizes early on. It helps a writer to get noticed and to get some sales. It… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for campaigning. Lots of… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
I'm not sure about prizes. I don't know how far you can seriously raise public consciousness about poetry. Having a 'National Poetry… — John Fuller Copy Share Image
Written in 1895, Alfred Nobel's will endowed prizes for scientific research in chemistry, physics, and medicine. At that time, these fields were… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
“Langevin-Joliot noted that they also were never encouraged to be the best. “I did not learn this as a child. That is… — Shelley Emling Copy Share Image
We need prizes as publishers... to focus attention on books, for people to know what to go look for. But often in… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Maybe it's a little crazy, but it's good to have it, but I just don't like [prizes or honors]. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes. — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
“. But, strangely enough, there is no record that they ever offered prizes for intellectual prowess.” — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
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