After Quote by Marsha Norman

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

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

— Eddie Adams

I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought…

— Isaac Asimov

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

“I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging journalism contests. And then I wrote some stories that…

— Gary Webb

Still, I kept writing. I had no guarantee that I would someday win awards for writing. Heavens, the only person during that time who…

— Katherine Paterson

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

“Writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don't get the thing you want the most.”

— Lang leav

“Slowly I discovered that writing was my way of coping with chaos and my cry of freedom, my homage to beauty. Because stories have…

— Vittorio Vandelli

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 learned that writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don’t get the thing you want the most.”

— Lang Leav