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It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.
— William, Saroyan
One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
— Annalena McAfee
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
We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize.
— Binyavanga Wainaina
Generosity of the heart is the most valuable asset you can have.
— Jennifer Freed
Like water spilt upon the groundalas, Our little lives flow swiftly on and pass; Yet may they bring rich harvests and green grass! — Henry Van Dyke
Every promise comes with a price and prize.
— Sheeja Jose
I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.
— Vijay Seshadri
Vitellius would've given Percy an hour-long lecture on the subject, probably with a PowerPoint presentation.
— Rick Riordan
It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
— William Faulkner
Pain was good. If I hurt, it meant I wasn't dead.
— Kristin Cast
The single most pressing earthly obligation of every medieval artisan was the establishment of a good personal reputation.11
— Richard Sennett
[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
There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair.
— Antonio Munoz Molina
The essence of a man is found in his faults.
— Francis Picabia