Words matter. These are the best Pulitzer Quotes from famous people such as Charles J. Shields, Ariel Helwani, Alice Ripley, Lou Holtz, Jennifer Egan, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for more than eighty weeks. In 1961, the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. A film adaptation was released in 1962, starring Gregory Peck, and received three Academy Awards.
I’m not doing Pulitzer Prize work where I’m unearthing major negative stories about the UFC or some big controversies. It’s just kind of day-to-day fodder.
When ‘Next to Normal’ won the Pulitzer, that was the moment I felt the show was being defined. There’s a certain confidence that comes with being selected.
I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.
It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like ‘Goon Squad’ could win an award like that. It’s such an iconic honor. I think what the Pulitzer means to me is that I’ll need to work very, very hard to try to live up to it.
The Snowden story, which won the Guardiana Pulitzer Prize, became the realisation of Rusbridger’s dream of a brand-building, left-wing-uniting, global and viral story.
There have been many great newspapermen, but to my mind, only two have achieved immortality: Pulitzer for his endowment and William Randolph Hearst for his castle.
You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it’s a completely meaningless award.
Viereck became a historian, specializing in modern Russia, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
As much as the Pulitzer is the hallmark of journalism, I think what I love the most is when somebody says they took my column and it’s in their wallet. I have had people open their wallet and show me a corner of a column.
I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.
The great ‘New York Times’ columnist Dave Anderson famously slept one year in a child’s race-car bed. There he was, Pulitzer Prize and all, snoring as his feet dangled over the rear tires of Lightning McQueen.
I’m glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.
I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.
I’m fully aware that not every cartoon is Pulitzer material. That said, I’m proud of my Pulitzer portfolio, the 20 that got judged.
I’m not ever getting a Pulitzer prize and my books aren’t on high school reading lists, but for better or worse I’m a working writer.
The Pulitzer Prize was established when Joseph Pulitzer died in 1911, leaving a bequest to create the eponymous award. An immigrant from Hungary, Pulitzer struck it rich by combining the ‘St. Louis Post’ and the ‘St. Louis Dispatch’ to make the – wait for it – ‘St. Louis Post-Dispatch.’
Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture.
We were supposed to stay over in Boston, but when Scribners heard I’d won the Pulitzer, they told me to get on a plane – that Katie Couric wanted my body. And when Katie Couric wants your body, you get moving right away.
A certain kind of person in America loves to note that they’re currently soldiering through the latest Pulitzer winner for history, in particular. It connotes a certain gravitas, a connectedness to the literary and intellectual scene that most upwardly mobile professionals in America still desire.
I think that no matter whether you’re Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants to win an Academy Award, because it’s like the Pulitzer Prize or the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Oh, I’ve become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn’t this great race.
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.
Some Pulitzer winners – novelists – have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn’t been my experience.
I just wrote the book and was amazed and astounded that it became a bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. It still hasn’t sunk in.
