American Book Award

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

“Were they to emigrate in a body to man the navies of the moon, almost every thing would stop here on earth except its revolution on its axis, and the orators in the American Congress.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

“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)