British Book Award

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

    “History is made in the class struggle and not in bed.”
    —Alex Mitchell, British left-wing journalist. quoted in Sunday Times (London, 29 Dec. 1985)

    “The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “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)