Book Quote by Bernice Rubens

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

— Paul Beatty

The judge threw the book at my man, judges like throwin books so I throw magazines.

— Papoose

Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England…

— Paul Muldoon

No one judges a book by it cover!

— Tammy Joseph

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

— Richard Flanagan

“Shame on the person who judges a Book by its cover without first reading the content: For you are not competent enough to perceive…

— Shenica Coleman

Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me…

— Eleanor Catton

“I was born with a reading list I will never finish.”

— Maud Casey

I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out.

— Rick Moody

Every time I go to the judges, I never get it.

— Dereck Chisora

“g sees himself as an independent reader: he buys all of the books on the literary prize lists.”

— Joanna Walsh

My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my prose books.…

— Tao Lin