British Book Award

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

    Quite frankly, if you bed people of belowstairs class, they go to the papers.
    Jane Clark, British millionaire politician’s wife. As quoted in Newsweek magazine, p. 15 (June 13, 1994)

    After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.
    Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

    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)