Books Quote by Larry McMurtry

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

The best novel I wrote was one called 'Crusoe's Daughter,' which never won any prizes. But I was getting somewhere in that. I'm not…

— Jane Gardam

I just wrote the book and was amazed and astounded that it became a bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. It still hasn't sunk…

— Frank McCourt

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

I've had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of…

— Robert Kiyosaki

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should…

— Edmund White

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

— Robert Scheer

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

— Cory Monteith

It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.

— William Saroyan

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

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.

— Dean Koontz

I've done 80 books and if anyone has entertained the idea of owning one of my books, I think this is the book that…

— Art Wolfe