Man Booker Quotes

“Resolved not to waste further time on account of this childish affair, I contemplated departure via the french windows.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

“In Australia the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle. I just didn’t expect to end up with the chicken.”
― Richard Flanagan

“To understand subjectivity in literary awards, think of these competitions as social media platforms and judging panels as their users. A book you submit to a literary award competition is like a post you share on social media—some praise its ideas, others reject them; some find it inspiring, others provoking; tragic to some, laughable to the rest.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“– No SF novel ever won the Booker, growls a prowling clansman on his way into the SF Café.
The librarian swings a shotgun from inside her longcoat, blasts the bullshit axiom from the air. Screw the Booker, she thinks. She’d rather have a hookah.”
― Hal Duncan, Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions