Booker Quotes

30 Booker quotes by 25 unique 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
I am not expecting anyone to feel sorry for me, but when friends ask how it feels to be a debut novelist who has also… — Rachel Joyce
Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to… — Eleanor Catton
In Australia, the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle. — Richard Flanagan
I said in my acceptance speech that I hope that readers remember this not as the year I won the Booker, but the year that… — Richard Flanagan
I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world. — Richard Flanagan

Who Wrote These Booker Quotes

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