A Quote by Richard Flanagan

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

Richard Flanagan

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Richard Flanagan
Australian - Writer
Born: 1961

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

Richard Flanagan

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

Only idiots or snobs ever really thought less of 'genre books' of course. There are stupid books and there are smart books. There are well-written books and badly written books. There are fun books and boring books. All of these distinctions are vastly more important than the distinction between the literary and the non-literary.

Stephen Marche

We need prizes as publishers... to focus attention on books, for people to know what to go look for. But often in my opinion and in probably everyone's opinion, the right books don't get chosen. Still we need books to be chosen even if they are not exactly the right ones, otherwise many people won't know what to read. As a publisher, I feel prizes are important for the publishing business. But as a writer, I think, writers shouldn't get too distracted by prizes because very often they don't go to the right person. You shouldn't take it too seriously if you haven't won a prize.

Jonathan W. Galassi

Blogging has helped create an expanded awareness of the creative nonfiction genre, generally. But I suspect many bloggers continue to be unaware that they are (or have the potential to be) "literary" or "artful."

Lee Gutkind

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

My grandfather and mother were school teachers, so there was always some discussion around books.

Sudha Murty

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

Michael Moorcock

Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.

Stephen Mangan

There's always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.

Stephen Mangan

On the £20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one.

Michael Johnson

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

Richard Flanagan

What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this.

Sebastiao Salgado

So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum.

Karen Russell

We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'

G. Willow Wilson

I read reviews and consider myself pretty 'plugged in' to the literary cosmos, yet one of the things I love best about book-touring is the opportunity to compare notes with favorite booksellers around the country. I always come home with books by authors I'd never heard of - or books I've read about but didn't realize I might love.

Julia Glass

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