You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life. — John Sandford 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
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
Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture. — Lynn Nottage 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
By the time I was in fifth grade, I was dreaming of the Pulitzer Prize. — Jacqueline Woodson 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
“Because this story is the road to the Pulitzer, something you covet very badly. I'm willing to bet that just the idea… — M.K. Schiller Copy Share Image
It's like a series of waves hitting you. First, getting excerpted in the 'New Yorker' last summer, then getting published, then the… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“When I accepted an internship at DV8, I knew it wasn’t going to lead to a Pulitzer. The network isn’t what you’d… — Gina Damico Copy Share Image
A Pulitzer Prize is awaiting the journalist who can find an American who dies of hunger, and probably the Nobel Prize for… — Tom Bethell Copy Share Image
The fact that Gene Weingarten and I and Bathroom Inventory are now part of some kind of Matrix of Poop strongly suggests… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like 'Goon Squad' could win an award like that. It's such an iconic honor. I… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“Cunningham himself said in an interview in Poz that he couldn’t help noticing that as soon as he wrote a novel without… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles south of Baghdad. And… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
If you are making money writing, you are doing great. If you can support yourself writing, you are a success. I don't… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
The Pulitzer Prize was established when Joseph Pulitzer died in 1911, leaving a bequest to create the eponymous award. An immigrant from… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
A certain kind of person in America loves to note that they're currently soldiering through the latest Pulitzer winner for history, in… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
'To Kill a Mockingbird' appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
When I look at Perfidia, I think, "That's a Pulitzer Prize winner. That's a National Book Award winner." It's not going to… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being… — David Lindsay-Abaire 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
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
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
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
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
There is this aura that the three-act play is the important one: it's the one that you do to win the Pulitzer.… — Sam Shepard 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
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
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
When 'Next to Normal' won the Pulitzer, that was the moment I felt the show was being defined. There's a certain confidence… — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
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