Awards Quote by Jonathan Messinger

The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good; the Argentine allows…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Literary award judges have the power to select a prize winner, granting them fame and potentially turning their book into a bestseller. However, determining…

— Mouloud Benzadi

I'm so thrilled to have won the RITA. The award is particularly special because it is given by other romance authors. It's deeply rewarding…

— Sarah MacLean

“The best authors are both evocative AND precise. But if you prefer one over the other, who is to say what's best? Every book…

— Anonymous

“The novel is a hybrid genre and a large part of its charm arises from the alluvial nature of its materials. There is nothing…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good' reviews because they misunderstand the project of the book. It…

— Eleanor Catton

I think Hemingway's [book] titles should be awarded first prize in any contest. Each of them is a poem, and their mysterious power over…

— Sylvia Beach

The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists…

— James M. Barrie

The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels…

— Alexander Payne

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel…

— Neil Gaiman

It definitely deserved an Oscar, but not a Golden Globe.

— Tobey Maguire

Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are…

— Wim Wenders