Awards Quote by Ernest Hemingway

No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need…

— Ernest Hemingway

It's such an honor to receive the Mark Twain Prize. To get the same award that has been given to people like Bill Cosby,…

— Ellen DeGeneres

“One of the disadvantages of literary awards is the fact that authors are writing to please a book award committee, rather than to spread…

— Mouloud Benzadi

“History teaches us that Literary Book Awards have always been the quickest and easiest way to achieve global fame. They have helped countless authors…

— Mouloud Benzadi

In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in respect and…

— John Steinbeck

I was absolutely convinced that I wouldn't win the Nobel Prize. My impression was that the Nobel Prize in Literature was given to people…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Of course I've enjoyed having the Nobel Prize, the prestige that goes along with it, the money that came with it in particular. I…

— Wole Soyinka

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

“Every time someone in town wins a literary award, someone will protest — why him, not me, making a big Fuss? And every time…

— Mouloud Benzadi

There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

“Every author these days is an award-winning novelist. Why? Because they set up an award contest and they dub themselves the winner.”

— Karen E. Quinones Miller

“Allow me to pay this small tribute to you who taught so much to those of us who wanted to be writers when we…

— Ernest Hemingway