American Book Award

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

    The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
    Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)

    The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
    Bible: Hebrew Psalms, 90:10.

    The Book of Common Prayer (1662)

    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)