American Book Award

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

    “The American ideal is youth—handsome, empty youth.”
    —Henry Miller (1891–1980)

    “Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around, and nearly every book represents what my son’s third grade teacher refers to as a “teachable moment.””
    —Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)

    “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)