Books Quote by Patrick Modiano

I lived on the street myself.

— Roddy Piper

The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international…

— Naguib Mahfouz

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

— Naguib Mahfouz

I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front seat of…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

— Joshua Lederberg

I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the…

— William Joyce

I'm not sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize or not, but the Nobel Committee called me, and, 'You got the Nobel Prize.'…

— Shuji Nakamura

I called my mother up when they announced the Nobel Prize, waiting until 7 in the morning. She said, "That's nice - and when…

— Steven Chu

I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home

— Tracy Chevalier

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

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

— Doris Lessing