Art Quote by Sinclair Lewis

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

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

After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was to keep…

— Marsha Norman

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

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

— John Sandford

“I am never going to win a literary prize. There is no point trying anymore. I stopped trying long ago. I am too undisciplined…

— Rotimi Ogunjobi

The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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

— Eddie Adams

“Even if you never get published, no one can take away your joy in writing, which is why you should be doing it anyway.”

— Jennifer Dechiara

Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

— Walter Jon Williams

Pulitzer's Gold is a goldmine of inspiration for both journalists and non-journalists. Those in the newspaper business, who now find themselves obsessing about staff…

— Jeffrey Zaslow

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