Awards Quote by James Ellroy

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 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

I'm not ever getting a Pulitzer prize and my books aren't on high school reading lists, but for better or worse I'm a working…

— Carole Radziwill

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

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

— John Sandford

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

— Martin Landau

There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make…

— John McEnroe

I am an extraordinarily lucky person, doing what I love best in the world. I'm sure that I will always be a writer. It…

— J K Rowling

I don't think of myself as a mystery or thriller writer, honestly. I am in awe of mystery writers and don't think I have…

— Celeste Ng

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

A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer.

— Karin Slaughter