A Quote by Sally Rooney

I'm not sure that the culture of literary prizes is always a good thing, but while there are literary prizes, it's nice to be nominated.

Sally Rooney

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Sally Rooney
Irish - Author
Born: 1991

Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books.

Richard Flanagan

The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.

Michael Moorcock

Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books.

Richard Flanagan

I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world.

Richard Flanagan

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have.

Kathy Acker

I've been very lucky with prizes. But the thing about prizes is that, when you talk about a prize-winning author, you can be talking about one that is well-regarded but doesn't sell any books.

Jim Crace

No more prizes for predicting the rain, only prizes for building the arks

Don Edward Beck

Nobel prizes are very special prizes, and it would be great to get one.

Craig Venter

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.

Theodore Roosevelt

There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are so many prizes.

Emma Donoghue

I was excited to be nominated for the Grammy, but prizes are a little strange.

Kyle Gass

One of the realities for women writers is that sometimes you'll start strong, but as you see people go up the ladder, working in their literary lives, getting prizes and awards and the better teaching gigs, women tend to sort of drop away.

Erin Belieu

Prizes aren't essential. What is essential is poetry itself, it's what is said, it is clarity, it's loyalty, those are the essential values, the literary values.

Maria Teresa Horta

I’m not club-able, you see. I don’t like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I’d hate to join anything, however loosely.

Jeanette Winterson

The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I’d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience.

Neil Cross

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

Lina Wertmuller

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