Lawrence Clark Powell

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

The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to…

— Lawrence Clark Powell

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

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

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

We all think were going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectation aren't met, but sometimes…

— Lawrence Clark Powell

[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

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then…

— Lawrence Clark Powell

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

Reading books is good, Rereading good books is better.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books.... To be in a…

— Lawrence Clark Powell

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

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

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

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

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

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