American Book Award

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

    “We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it it means danger, revolution, anarchy.”
    —Henry Miller (1891–1980)

    “The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “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)