Quotes About Author

I like all the types of supposed work that I do. It's a privilege: I can't believe I get paid for it.

Being the first-ever NXT U.K. women's champion was just an absolute honor and privilege in itself.

I've always been interested in this idea of a privileged life, probably because it's something I hadn't seen much of.

I'm a scrappy outsider from Boston, so didn't have a privileged background at all like many in business.

Writing a book is as difficult or as easy as any other job. Everyone's job is difficult. So to fetishize difficulties in writing as something extra-difficult or something very privileged - I don't buy that at all.

I am privileged to be a part of 'Tere Bin.'

One of the privileges of my adult life has been meeting pioneers of LGBT equality, particularly Waheed Alli, Michael Cashman and Ian McKellen.

Even if there's no way to stop U.S. corporations from shedding their U.S. identities and becoming foreign corporations, there's no reason they should retain the privileges of U.S. citizenship.

I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much.

There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year. You can't imagine the pressure to give interviews, to go to book fairs.

In 1991, I won the Chandler Fulbright Prize, which came with $20,000 and the stipulation of spending six months in the U.S.

In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for the individual.

You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.

Yes, I've won prizes for putting words on a computer.

I am not in England; I live in the Caribbean. So I am not hungover by prizes and awards because it does not happen very often.

Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse.

I enjoy the pro game because it gives me an outlet to combine my intellect with something that I can still enjoy doing. It's better than applying my intellect while sitting in a corner office somewhere, trying to write code.

I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.

Apple makes beautiful products. I own a Mac Pro, a Mac Book, a Mac Mini, an iPad, an iPhone, pretty much the entire collection.

It hasn't been very normal in my career, but that first year in pro ball was the craziest year ever.