Booker Quotes

30 quotes by 25 authors

• The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be. — John Banville
• Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• I would walk into the Carnegie Library and I would see the pictures of Booker T. and pictures of Frederick Douglass and I would read.… — Clarence Thomas
• He (Vince Russo) is the only booker I've seen who doesn't get people over, he gets them under. — Jim Cornette
• New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker last night personally rescued a woman from a burning building. Or as Fox News reported it, 'black man loots house,… — Bill Maher
• I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much too seriously, and… — Nick Hornby
• The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but,… — Neil Cross
• If you think your lot has been hard, read 'Up From Slavery' by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been. — Napoleon Hill
• Booker T. Jones sounds more pithy and forceful than ever on “Potato Hole”…Mr. Jones still jabs terse, unhurried melodies that sound as if he knows… — Jon Pareles
• People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary… — Kazuo Ishiguro
• He's a seminal force, a guru, an original creator of the New Orleans piano style.. the teacher of great players like Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint,… — Jerry Wexler
• The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either. It's irrelevant. — Edward St Aubyn
• 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 big… — Anne Enright
• Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders… — John Legend
• Nine Years Under is a sparkling debut--- brimming with love and bursting with life. Booker's Baltimore is equal parts The Wire and The Cosby show.… — Tayari Jones
• You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job.… — Anne Enright
• Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race. — Ian Mcewan
• I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.' — Dan Stevens
• The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the… — Arundhati Roy
• She can take a year to read something, whereas I like a book that becomes more important in my life that life itself. When I… — Jeremy Clarkson

Who Wrote These Booker Quotes

25 authors contributed a total of 30 Booker Quotes as follows:

• 3 Booker Quotes by Richard Flanagan
• 2 Booker Quotes by Anne Enright
• 2 Booker Quotes by C L R James
• 1 Booker Quote by John Banville
• 1 Booker Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• 1 Booker Quote by Clarence Thomas
• 1 Booker Quote by Jim Cornette
• 1 Booker Quote by Bill Maher
• 1 Booker Quote by Nick Hornby
• 1 Booker Quote by Neil Cross
• 1 Booker Quote by Napoleon Hill
• 1 Booker Quote by Jon Pareles
• 1 Booker Quote by Kazuo Ishiguro
• 1 Booker Quote by Jerry Wexler
• 1 Booker Quote by Edward St Aubyn
• 1 Booker Quote by John Legend
• 1 Booker Quote by Tayari Jones
• 1 Booker Quote by Ian Mcewan
• 1 Booker Quote by Dan Stevens
• 1 Booker Quote by Arundhati Roy
• 1 Booker Quote by Jeremy Clarkson
• 1 Booker Quote by Rachel Joyce
• 1 Booker Quote by Eleanor Catton
• 1 Booker Quote by Booker T Washington
• 1 Booker Quote by Ed Smith