William Faulkner Quotes

It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.

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

I grew up hoping that my father might win a Nobel Prize.

I'm not sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize or not, but the Nobel Committee called me, and, 'You got the Nobel Prize.' So, I was so, so happy, and I was so surprised.

If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.

Making the best-seller list is a big deal; it's like being nominated for an Oscar. Hitting No. 1 is like actually winning the award. It's very gratifying.

You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important.

The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need the money? Probably not. The honor is more important the money, and that's the case with the prize for African leadership as well.

The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist.

Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel laureate, but that is not part of my work plan every day.

The prestige of the Nobel Prize is such that one is suddenly promoted to a new status.

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

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.

These opportunities don't come around too often. It's quite an honor and a privilege to be able to sit here today saying that I'm a part-owner of an NFL team.

You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.

I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.

I was overwhelmed by so many interviewers and then messages of congratulations. So many congratulation messages. I feel this shows the authority and the greatness of the Nobel Prize.

I don't care about money or fame or anything like that, but it would be a perk.

I did not know that I can win the Nobel Prize.

It is a wonderful and unexpected honor to receive the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Receiving this prize with Joseph Stiglitz and George Akerlof, whose work I have learned from and admired, makes it even more gratifying.

Nobel prizes are very special prizes, and it would be great to get one.

I very deeply appreciate the honour which you have conferred upon me in awarding the Nobel Prize for 1923 to me and Professor J.J.R. Macleod.

You would be amazed at the number of doors a Nobel Prize opens.

Boy, oh, boy, people get jaded fast. I got nominated for an Emmy.

I don't need material things like gold and platinum records on my wall, Grammys or Hall Of Fame nods.