American Book Award

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

    Give me this day a faith not personal
    As follows: The American people fully armed
    With assurance policies, righteous and harmed,
    Battle the world of which they’re not at all.
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
    John Ruskin (1819–1900)

    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)