American Book Award

Famous quotes containing the words american, book and/or award:

“The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the townlets wither a time and die.”
—John Steinbeck (1902–1968)

“Grief with drenched book and candle christens the cherub time....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)