I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award. — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
All that a Pulitzer really does is give the obit writers something to put between the commas after your name. — Eddie Adams Copy Share Image
The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
By the time I was in fifth grade, I was dreaming of the Pulitzer Prize. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was… — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize. — Dick Van Patten Copy Share Image
When Larry Wright won the Pulitzer for The Looming Tower we all strutted around for weeks, until some sourpuss among us noted… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
I knew from experience at the Negro Ensemble Company that it wasn't until there was a place controlled by black artists... that… — Michael Schultz Copy Share Image
Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you… — Richard Harris Copy Share Image
Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think… — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
When Goldberg's 'Liberal Fascism' came out in January 2008, his employer 'National Review Online' announced that Tribune Media Services, which carries Goldberg's… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
“The resulting article—an almost hour-by-hour reconstruction of the massacre—was published across four full pages of The New York Times on September 26,… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Pulitzer isn't a physical object. You can't hold it in your hand. You get some money ($7,500 in my day), and… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“In his 1907 retirement address, Joseph Pulitzer urged his successors to always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
I think that the Pulitzer Prize is definitely a blessing, but it's also a curse. Because I think that it is a… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
The thing is, if you make best-sellerdom your goal, you're going to be in trouble. It's a very nice thing to have… — Diane Mott Davidson Copy Share Image
All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
One thing about winning a Pulitzer, it means you know what the first three words of your obituary will be: Pulitzer Prize-winner.… — Clarence Page Copy Share Image
Pulitzer's Gold is a goldmine of inspiration for both journalists and non-journalists. Those in the newspaper business, who now find themselves obsessing… — Jeffrey Zaslow Copy Share Image
“Annie Dillard was a pioneer in her Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1974. Among other notable examples… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Nothing concentrates the mind like a firm deadline, and a little voice in the back of my mind reminding me that, "If… — Clarence Page Copy Share Image
Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
If I were a writer, the Pulitzer Prize would be important to me. This is my profession, so an Oscar is important. — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
I adore [my son]. I wouldn't trade him in for a Pulitzer - unless someone actually offered that as an option. — Arthur M. Jolly Copy Share Image
You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life. — John Sandford Copy Share Image
As much as the Pulitzer is the hallmark of journalism, I think what I love the most is when somebody says they… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
One could get locked in by the Pulitzer, thinking, 'This is who I am.' Doors open with it, but doors in your… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
My eyes widened at the ball of orange fluff squeezing out from under the counter, blinking and stretching. I looked again, not… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image