Literary Prizes: Reasons for Fiction Writers’ Cynicism

As Charles Dickens said, “I don’t invent it.” 

As Mark Twain said, “Writers don’t create characters.” 

As Stephen King has said, his stories are “found objects.”

In short, the fiction writer's host personality, who accepts the award, is probably not the writer's most creative personality.

See past posts on those writers for sources of those quotations.