American Book Award

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

    “Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.”
    —Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951)

    “It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “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)