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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

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

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

— John Sandford

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

When I look at Perfidia, I think, "That's a Pulitzer Prize winner. That's a National Book Award winner." It's not going to get it.…

— James Ellroy

I always love it when a small paper wins. When I was growing up in the Bronx, the editor of the Riverdale Press -…

— Gene Weingarten

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

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

— Eddie Adams

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

— Robert Scheer

I wrote almost all of it in the deepest hope and conviction. Sifting my thoughts and choosing my words. Trying to say what was…

— Marilynne Robinson

It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter…

— Fay Wray

It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new feeling. I'd never…

— Al Pacino