American Book Award

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

    Promiscuity: optimism, free enterprise, mobility—the American Dream.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
    William Styron (b. 1925)

    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)