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)

    “I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.”
    —Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)

    “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)