Activism Quote by Arundhati Roy

I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world.

— Richard Flanagan

I'm hugely honored [with the Man Booker Prize].

— Paul Beatty

I'd like to win a Booker Prize for writing. A Nobel Peace Prize for my work in peace... and I think that'll probably do.

— Billy Boyd

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including…

— Amartya Sen

I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any…

— Anne Enright

There's something very strange about associating me with that prize. I had hoped for it in a more directed way as a journalist. Somehow…

— Jennifer Egan

I am not expecting anyone to feel sorry for me, but when friends ask how it feels to be a debut novelist who has…

— Rachel Joyce

I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when…

— Michael Sandel

The biggest achievement is to create silence. I think every real writer who has a passion to do justice to the world thinks this…

— Peter Handke

My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it.

— Martin Amis

It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more…

— Jacki Weaver

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

— Robert Harris