Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things. — 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
![“[A writer] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make a living, but his work will never be anymore essentially clear and deep and honest than he himself is, and he will be judged finally not for how many copies his books have sold, but for what…” quote by Lawrence Clark Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c72/lawrence-clark-powell-27650_book_a-writer-must-try-to-think-clearly-to-fe_1486016.jpg)
