Book Quote by 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 a single…

— 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 say. That…

— 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 no longer…

— 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, in their…

— 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 our expectations…

— 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, but his…

— 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 will our…

— 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 a single…

— 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 library is…

— 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 dead, continuing…

— Lawrence Clark Powell