Pulitzer Quotes

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize. (Sinclair Lewis)
You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life. View quote
John Sandford
I'm not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. I write to entertain my readers. View quote
Dorothy Garlock
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 - I honestly do not and cannot think about that. It's a lovely piece of crystal on my bookcase, but that's all it is to me. View quote
David Lindsay-Abaire
You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award. View quote
John Corigliano
I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles south of Baghdad. And it was almost midnight, and I got a computer message from the home office of the Washington Post asking me to call them. I did call them and was told that I'd won the Pulitzer Prize. View quote
Rick Atkinson
The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize. View quote
Robert Scheer
I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter. View quote
Robert Scheer
If so, our posture would be as follows: we published the story and said it was true, but now we are going to nominate it for a Pulitzer - now that's serious business. View quote
Bob Woodward
I think that the decision to nominate the story for a Pulitzer is of minimal consequence. I also think that it won is of little consequence. It is a brilliant story - fake and fraud that it is. View quote
Bob Woodward
I was in Miami, reading at the book fair. My partner on the platform had won the Pulitzer Prize the previous day. At the book signing afterwards, Pulitzer Man had waiting for him a queue of admiring readers that stretched up the spine of Florida, while I had three people - an academic who was writing something on my work, the usual maniac in a raincoat, and a kindly chap who leaned down and said to me in a confidential whisper, "I'm not going to buy your book, but you looked so lonely I felt I had to come and talk to you.”. (John Banville)
I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing. View quote
Rita Dove
As much as the Pulitzer is the hallmark of journalism, I think what I love the most is when somebody says they took my column and it's in their wallet. I have had people open their wallet and show me a corner of a column. View quote
Regina Brett
I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company. View quote
Harlan Coben
The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book. View quote
Zack Snyder
When I heard the news that Osama bin Laden was killed by U. S. forces in Pakistan, I had a lot of questions. And one of the people I wanted to talk to was Lawrence Wright. He's joined us several times on the show. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2006 book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaida and the Road to 9/11, which is based in part on more than 500 interviews, including interviews with friends and relatives of bin Laden. View quote
Lawrence Wright
Although Bix Constantine disbelieved in hell as intensely as he did in heaven, he knew what the place would be like. Hell, for Bix, was jealousy. It was failed journalists seeing their enemies receive Pulitzer Prizes. It was compulsive gamblers seeing jackpots gush from adjacent players' slot machines and sex-starved young men seeing their friends piled high with naked cheerleaders. View quote
James K. Morrow
I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize. View quote
Dick Van Patten
I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones. (Ed McBain)
I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too. View quote
John Corigliano
I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names. View quote
John Corigliano
If you are making money writing, you are doing great. If you can support yourself writing, you are a success. I don't care if you're writing textbooks or Pulitzer Prize-winning articles for weighty publications of world renown: If you're writing and it's paying the bills, consider yourself a successful writer. View quote
Julie Klausner
So I think that in the beginning of your career you're just looking to work. Luckily for me, my first movie was 'Rabbit Hole' and I got to work with incredible people, a Pulitzer prize winning writer, John Cameron Mitchell, and all the actors involved. So it's tough, man, because you want to have credibility. View quote
Miles Teller