Marcel Proust 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'll take anyway to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy, I'll go in as a batboy.

I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

I'll never get a Humanitas Award, but I'll have fun.

I think it's great when writers get recognition; it doesn't happen very often. I just don't want that writer to be me. Let it be Aaron Sorkin or, you know, somebody good.

A seat in the council is honor without profit.

I won the Nobel prize for literature. What was your crime?

I'm honored that people would think of me for any big role that is talked about a lot.

I think they're an incredible honor. I'm grateful and flattered by them. But I have no control over winning awards - I have no control over any of that.

I'm an idiot who won the Literature Nobel Prize.

For me, awards are a token of respect that people are giving me. So no matter how many awards I am receiving, I always feel emotional.

I don't give much thought to individual awards.

I hate to tell you this, but I did not know what the National Book Award was when I got the call.

Power in itself has never attracted me, nor has position been my goal.

I am certainly humbled to receive the American Voice Award and join the ranks of so many people that I admire.

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

As always, whenever I'm contacted by the White House, I'm just humbled.

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.

It's really humbling to be acknowledged by such established names like CMT and Billboard.

I am beyond blessed and humbled to be named the Paul Hornung Award winner.

It's not awards per se that bother me; it's entirely to do with the impetus they give for marketing a film.

Fame has never been high on my agenda.

To be first is something special.

You know, being the first pick to me, it's not a huge thing.

I have not hung a single award on my walls, including the Padma Shri.