Half way Quote by Richard Harris

Winning the Pulitzer is a really mellow, fabulous thing. You don't sit and wait for them to open an envelope. You already know you…

— John Patrick Shanley

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

The Pulitzer isn't a physical object. You can't hold it in your hand. You get some money ($7,500 in my day), and you get…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every…

— David Baldacci

I think that the Pulitzer Prize is definitely a blessing, but it's also a curse. Because I think that it is a blessing because…

— Nilo Cruz

There's something very strange about associating me with that prize. I had hoped for it in a more directed way as a journalist. Somehow…

— Jennifer Egan

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

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 don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different…

— John Corigliano

You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.

— John Sandford

There is this aura that the three-act play is the important one: it's the one that you do to win the Pulitzer. Some part…

— Sam Shepard

The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.

— Annie Dillard