Novelists Quote by 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

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

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

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

As much as the Pulitzer is the hallmark of journalism, I think what I love the most is when somebody says they took my…

— Regina Brett

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

— Eddie Adams

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

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts…

— Sinclair Lewis

One thing about winning a Pulitzer, it means you know what the first three words of your obituary will be: Pulitzer Prize-winner. After winning…

— Clarence Page

I think that the Pulitzer Prize is definitely a blessing, but it's also a curse. Because I think that it is a blessing because…

— Nilo Cruz