American Book Award

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

    If that’s the world’s smartest man, God help us.
    Lucille Feynman, mother of American physicist Richard Feynman (1918-1988)

    There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don’t see them.
    Elie Wiesel (b. 1928)

    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)