Bathroom Quote by Dave Barry

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 you get…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like 'Goon Squad' could win an award like that. It's such an iconic honor. I think what…

— Jennifer Egan

The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble -…

— David Lindsay-Abaire

You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.

— John Sandford

I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite…

— Rita Dove

“Cunningham himself said in an interview in Poz that he couldn’t help noticing that as soon as he wrote a novel without a blowjob,…

— Christopher Bram

All that a Pulitzer really does is give the obit writers something to put between the commas after your name.

— Eddie Adams

Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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

All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every…

— David Baldacci

I adore [my son]. I wouldn't trade him in for a Pulitzer - unless someone actually offered that as an option.

— Arthur M. Jolly

I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different…

— John Corigliano