Books Quote by Tom Bethell

A certain kind of person in America loves to note that they're currently soldiering through the latest Pulitzer winner for history, in particular. It…

— Michelle Dean

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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

— John Sandford

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

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

That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?

— Jean-Paul Sartre

As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only…

— Ernest Hemingway

The [Nobel] prize is for literature.[Bob] Dylan is a songwriter. Here is where the argument starts to get interesting, because here is where it…

— David Bennun

“Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside-and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you…

— Camron Wright

Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Every author these days is an award-winning novelist. Why? Because they set up an award contest and they dub themselves the winner.”

— Karen E. Quinones Miller

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

— Matthew Arnold