We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
Books, books, books in all their aspects, in form and spirit, their physical selves and what reading releases from their hieroglyphic pages,… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
[A writer] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make a living,… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books.... To be in a… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time. — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant. — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
Books, books, books in all their aspects, in form and spirit, their physical selves and what reading releases from their hieroglyphic pages, in their… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things. — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
We all think were going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectation aren't met, but sometimes our expectations… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
[A writer] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make a living, but his… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books.... To be in a library is… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image