American Book Award

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

    Wit. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
    Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

    What was really horrifying about jail is that it really isn’t horrifying. You adjust very easily.
    Roberta Victor, U.S. prostitute. As quoted in Working, book 2, by Studs Terkel (1973)

    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)