About Quote by Steve Toltz

I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one. And now they seem sort of meaningful and real.

— Bill Nighy

I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one, and now they seem sort of meaningful and important.

— Bill Nighy

Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they…

— Kate Mosse

Prizes are like butterflies, colorful butterflies that fly away. I don't believe in prizes much.

— Lina Wertmuller

In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for the individual.

— Wole Soyinka

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

— Katharine Hepburn

Incentive prizes work.

— Peter Diamandis

Prizes do not mean anything to me. I think it is more important to make a child aware of the existence of a weird…

— Hayao Miyazaki

I don't value prizes of any sort.

— David Hockney

“All prizes, like all titles, are dangerous. The seekers for prizes tend to labor not for inherent excellence but for alien rewards; they tend…

— R. Scott Williams

In the end you're not made or broken by prizes. Your relationship is with your readers, not a prize, and you just have to…

— Richard Flanagan

“To award prizes is to attempt to control the course of another man’s work. It is a bid to have him do what you…

— Robert Henri