American Book Award

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

    In Africa I had indeed found a sufficiently frightful kind of loneliness but the isolation of this American ant heap was even more shattering.
    Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)

    We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.
    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)