Publishers Society Award

Famous quotes containing the words publishers, society and/or award:

    “Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and that to compress it further can only make it more obscure?”
    —Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

    “If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “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)