Larry Quote by Elizabeth Crook

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

“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

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

I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that…

— John Corigliano

The Pulitzer Prize was established when Joseph Pulitzer died in 1911, leaving a bequest to create the eponymous award. An immigrant from Hungary, Pulitzer…

— Nell Scovell

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

“A winner is someone who recognizes his God given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to…

— Darryl Marks

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

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

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

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