Be good Quote by Stephen Dobyns

I can read books and news articles about people who have excelled, people who have done extremely well in their chosen field, or made…

— John S. Hall

Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life should be.

— Lee Kuan Yew

Of course I've enjoyed having the Nobel Prize, the prestige that goes along with it, the money that came with it in particular. I…

— Wole Soyinka

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important…

— Nina Bawden

I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety wasn't impossible.

— Kirby Wright

By the time I got to college I had stopped reading books because I wanted to "be cool" and started reading books simply because…

— Simon Rich

There's plenty of ordinary Nobel laureates.

— Frances Arnold

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for Literature, I'd…

— Colin Wilson

There is only one positive role of the Nobel prize--it creates some common way to understand a writer. I cannot say, that I like…

— Stanislaw Lem

I was absolutely convinced that I wouldn't win the Nobel Prize. My impression was that the Nobel Prize in Literature was given to people…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I do think that I have been fortunate to make friendships with other scholars, and form reading groups where ideas are exchanged and papers…

— Oliver D. Crisp

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