Booker Prize Quotes: top 14 famous quotes about Booker Prize

Booker Prize Quotes & Sayings

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Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily. — Eleanor Catton

I'd like to win a Booker Prize for writing. A Nobel Peace Prize for my work in peace ... and I think that'll probably do. — Billy Boyd

The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be. — John Banville

She's a blackbird sitting in a tree staring out at the world, daring the wind to come and knock her off the swaying bough. — J.A. Huss

I'll always struggle over saying I'm a writer, even if I won the Booker Prize. — Sonya Hartnett

My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it. — Martin Amis

Usually whenever you're scared of something, do it. If you're not afraid of it, don't do it. — Sylvester Stallone

[On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize:] I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize. — Bernice Rubens

Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race. — Ian McEwan

I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me. — Doseone

There's no statute of limitations on doing what's right. — Louie Gohmert

He is the very pineapple of politeness! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The body is held together by sound. The presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune. — Deepak Chopra

I am the source of my own suffering, because of the habits of my mind. — Dalai Lama