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.
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The Pulitzer is a crapshoot. Your piece has to hit a few people the right way at the right moment.
The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble - I honestly do not and cannot think about that. It's a lovely piece of crystal on my bookcase, but that's all it is to me.
There's something very strange about associating me with that prize. I had hoped for it in a more directed way as a journalist. Somehow as a journalist you know there are Pulitzers out there and you can work hard and get one. To win it for Fiction seems unbelievable.
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.
I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names.
The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.
You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.
The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.
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.
You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.
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