Doe Quote by Eddie Adams

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

— John Sandford

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

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 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

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

Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn't sit…

— Richard Harris

The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.

— Annie Dillard

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

If I were a writer, the Pulitzer Prize would be important to me. This is my profession, so an Oscar is important.

— Martin Landau

After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was to keep…

— Marsha Norman

Winning the Pulitzer is a really mellow, fabulous thing. You don't sit and wait for them to open an envelope. You already know you…

— John Patrick Shanley

Nothing concentrates the mind like a firm deadline, and a little voice in the back of my mind reminding me that, "If you don't…

— Clarence Page