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I would not employ an author to referee a Ping-Pong match. By their very nature they are biased and bloody-minded. Better put a fox in a henhouse than to ask an author to judge his peers. (in a letter to the Governor General about the GA's Literary Awards & his issue--among others--with the judging system, 1981)


Jack McClelland


#awards #humor #judging #publishers #publishing

It is something to have gazed on the constellated white, felt it running from the eyes and the pores: the salt of love. It is something to have whispered wild thank-yous in the only ways we know how.


Bryana Johnson


#free-verse #hamlet #poetry-life #shakespeare #the-quintessence-of-dust

Death Notice, ...... “He was offended with his wife, and went and hanged himself.” 10 Jun 1817


Boston Recorder


#epitaph #death

I let one of the men rename me. A man gave me the name Rose – you didn’t know that, did you, Poke?…He said, this man, he said that Kwan was too hard to remember, even though it’s a good name and it means ‘spirit,’ and that the rose was the queen of flowers and I was the queen of Patpong.” She laughs, rough as a cough. “The queen of Patpong. A kingdom of whores and viruses. Death with a smile.


Timothy Hallinan


#edgar-award #poke-rafferty #thriller #death

No person writes to win awards.


Mo Yan


#person #win #writes

All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing.


David Baldacci


#change #civilization #detachment #journalism #mankind

The Heisman is the biggest award I've ever won.


Barry Sanders


#biggest #ever #i #won

I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.


Amy Adams


#awards #beyond #define #family #friends

I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.


Ralph Allen


#awards #day #discipline #during #emotion






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