Being awarded a Pulitzer, Man Booker or a Nobel Prize? Sure, that's a high level of recognition I reckon.
I wonder though, whether the greatest award as an author isn't when a phrase you coined in a book, becomes something used in everyday language?
Read by chance (a quiz) that "dark horse" first appeared in The Young Duke by Benjamin Disraeli.
Never read the book, never heard of Disraeli. My ignorance and not something to brag about.
Looking up who he is, as you tend to do if your interests stray further than following the Kardashian's on TV, he was to become Prime Minister of GB after writing it and disliked the novel himself.
Still, he must have been a bit proud that "dark horse" became commonly used in language?
[Fill in with other phrases and books]
I wonder though, whether the greatest award as an author isn't when a phrase you coined in a book, becomes something used in everyday language?
Read by chance (a quiz) that "dark horse" first appeared in The Young Duke by Benjamin Disraeli.
Never read the book, never heard of Disraeli. My ignorance and not something to brag about.
Looking up who he is, as you tend to do if your interests stray further than following the Kardashian's on TV, he was to become Prime Minister of GB after writing it and disliked the novel himself.
Still, he must have been a bit proud that "dark horse" became commonly used in language?
[Fill in with other phrases and books]
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