Billy Boyd Quotes

Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily.

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world.

If I were a writer, the Pulitzer Prize would be important to me. This is my profession, so an Oscar is important.

I'm hugely honored [with the Man Booker Prize].

No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.

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.

As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.

I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

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.

The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.

I'm not going to pretend that I never fantasized about winning the Hugo. Or the Nebula, for that matter. I just never thought it was an actual real possibility.

Most people I know don't even realize I'm an award-winning author, but I have gotten many opportunities to travel to places I'd never have visited otherwise.

Writers are not celebrities, so you don't expect to walk down the street and hear, 'Oh my God, there's Sylvia Day.' You prefer to be anonymous.

The only time I was ever approached to write a book was when I was most famous.

I was absolutely convinced that I wouldn't win the Nobel Prize. My impression was that the Nobel Prize in Literature was given to people more or less affiliated with, let's say, socialist ideas, and that was not my case.

By the time I was in fifth grade, I was dreaming of the Pulitzer Prize.

It's a strange failure of the literary world that Updike never quite received his due. Despite winning two Pulitzers and two National Book Awards and countless other awards and honours, he was denied the Nobel.

Winning the Whitbread was a very major thing for me. I'd always been well reviewed, but this made me widely read.

When I was at school I wanted to be a writer and an actress. Then this whole modelling thing happened.

If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced somehow. It just works that way. If you're just a simple ordinary day-to-day craftsman, no different than most, then the likelihood is that you probably won't make it in writing.