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
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
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'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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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 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
Thankfully, it is getting better for women composers. We now have five women Pulitzer Prize winners in music since 1983: Ellen Taaffe… — Barbara Harbach 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
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
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
I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize. — Dick Van Patten Copy Share Image
Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
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
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 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
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
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
“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
![“All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing.” quote by David Baldacci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5df/david-baldacci-1558_appreciation_all-you-have-to-do-to-win-a-pulitzer-pri_3158264.jpg)
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