#award

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

— John Corigliano

#become #completely #composer #great #i

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 love you so much I hate you... ↗

— Carlene Carter

#anderbo-com #carlene-carter #every-little-thing #father-must #gail-hochman

No person writes to win awards. ↗

— Mo Yan

#person #win #writes

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

— Barry Sanders

#biggest #ever #i #won

My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort. ↗

— John Bardeen

#award #based #close #collaborative #earlier

The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved. ↗

— John Bardeen

#general #giving #individuals #involved #nobel

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise. ↗

— Patricia Clarkson

#caught #me #sag #see #surprise