Fiction Quote by Jennifer Egan

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

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 was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

— Robert Scheer

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

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'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

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

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

— John Sandford

Winning the Pulitzer is a really mellow, fabulous thing. You don't sit and wait for them to open an envelope. You already know you…

— John Patrick Shanley

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

— Martin Landau

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

— Jhumpa Lahiri