Books 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

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 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

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

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

The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.

— Annie Dillard

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

— Martin Landau

Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it's an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that I'll think of…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

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

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

— Robert Hughes