Pulitzer Quotes

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award. - John Corigliano

Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it's an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that I'll think of it very much as the final sort of final moment for this book and put it behind me along with the rest of the book, as I write more books. - Jhumpa Lahiri

Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn't sit half way through it. The Pulitzer is a common prize that means very little. - Richard Harris

We've had three or four scripts written, and we've never quite nailed what we wanted to do. We've got a new writer. A very famous writer, a Pulitzer Prize winner indeed. I can't name him because I don't know the situation at the moment. You can't tell someone's life story in two hours on film. - Roger Daltrey

We are delighted and honored that Richard will be coming back. First, he is working on a book that might just win a Pulitzer Prize. This will be a 'sneak preview' of his important new book. - Bill Lacy

This is one more surprise for people in this area; we not only had a Nobel Prize winner, but a Pulitzer Prize winner, and he even wrote a poem that mentioned New York Avenue, in Union City. I hope that as a result of these articles, the city residents will become interested in learning about all the people and things and places that we can call 'our own' and should respect and honor. - Kathie Pontus

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind. - Jeffrey Eugenides

The Pulitzer isn't a physical object. You can't hold it in your hand. You get some money ($7,500 in my day), and you get a little Tiffany's paperweight with your name on it and the image of Joseph Pulitzer suspended in the crystal. When people see my 'Pulitzer' (I keep it in my sock drawer), they are pretty amazed at its meagerness. - Jeffrey Eugenides

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations. - Joseph Pulitzer

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize. - Robert Scheer