I haven't won any PRIZES or had any BEST sellers.

My MOTHER attended the local CHURCH, Saint Nicolas, and consequently, I attended that church and its SUNDAY School. My only prizes from the Sunday School were 'for attendance,' so I presume my atheism, which developed when I left home to attend UNIVERSITY, although latent, was discernible.

All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a CLEAR focus on READING and quality WRITING. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an INCREDIBLY important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading.

I was excited to be nominated for the GRAMMY, but PRIZES are a LITTLE STRANGE.

I am knowledgeable enough about the world of PRIZES to realize that there is a LARGE DEGREE of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.

The WORLD is made up of people who never quite GET into the first team and who just MISS the prizes at the flower show.

There are, it is TRUE, at present no great prizes in LITERATURE such as are offered by the LEARNED professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other HAND, it is not so MUCH of a lottery.

When my life is STRESSFUL, my favorite game is called 'POP It,' where you pop balloons and PRIZES fall out. It's a five-minute game that focuses my mind and GIVES me extra attention when I'm stressed.

I know the money is important, but, actually, the VALIDATION of your career that prizes GIVE is what you REALLY want. But the money is fabulous, too.

I've been very lucky with PRIZES. But the THING about prizes is that, when you TALK about a prize-winning author, you can be talking about one that is well-regarded but doesn't sell any BOOKS.

I'm not sure about PRIZES. I don't know how far you can seriously raise public consciousness about poetry. Having a 'National Poetry Day,' like a 'No SMOKING Day,' is just shelving the problem. THINGS which should by rights be EVERY day are not best served by these things.

Winning the OSCAR was like winning all the PRIZES in one SINGLE NIGHT that I never won as a kid.

What you WANT is the opportunity to WORK and an AUDIENCE. Prizes after that are just a GREAT BIG bonus.

Now, I'm AHEAD of my FATHER. He GOT other prizes... But he did not GET a Nobel Prize.

After being REJECTED for YEARS, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a SECOND and a THIRD book because I kept taking the money and SPENDING it.