Envy-quotes Quote by Mouloud Benzadi

“Allow me to pay this small tribute to you who taught so much to those of us who wanted to be writers when we…

— Ernest Hemingway

“One of the disadvantages of literary awards is the fact that authors are writing to please a book award committee, rather than to spread…

— Mouloud Benzadi

“Every author these days is an award-winning novelist. Why? Because they set up an award contest and they dub themselves the winner.”

— Karen E. Quinones Miller

“In the end, it's not your Nobel Prize you're thinking of, it's not your three National Book Awards, and all that. It's your sins…

— Martin Amis

As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only…

— Ernest Hemingway

“A true winner is not someone who has won an award, but someone who has left an indelible mark on the world.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

I think anyone who gets the Nobel Prize has to be a little bit embarrassed to be picked out when there have been so…

— Christopher A. Sims

“The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion…

— John Steinbeck

“winners may be admired but they are not liked.”

— Mark Lawrence

“All prizes, like all titles, are dangerous. The seekers for prizes tend to labor not for inherent excellence but for alien rewards; they tend…

— R. Scott Williams

I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients,…

— Anonymous

The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow