American Book Award

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

    “I pledge you—I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    “Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me—a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life; not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “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)