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Award Winner Quotes

An award winner recommended and commended someone's work, and that someone later endorsed my work, so it's like I'm an award winner twice removed. And I think that beats being the runner up to the runner up for a major award.
- Jarod Kintz

I haven't won an award, but I have won over an award winner.
- Jarod Kintz

I started writing because of a terrible feeling of powerlessness," the novelist Anita Brookner has said. The National Book Award winner Alice McDermott noted that the most difficult thing about becoming a writer was convincing herself that she had anything to say that people would want to read. "There's nothing to writing," the columnist Red Smith once commented. "All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.
- Wally Lamb

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