Doe Quote by Lawrence Clark Powell Download Open image “This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.” — Lawrence Clark Powell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doe Inspirational Language Writing
“Every writer dreams of a perfect language. Every writer dreams of a language that obeys, that comes to heel. For some this language is spare and pure, pared down to reveal essential truths without ornament or obfuscation. For others it is devilish and twisting, folding back over itself to create layers of meaning, shades of nuance. A language that will… — Helen Marshall Copy Share
… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
This is every writer's nightmare--the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us... — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of writers that can get away with not being gifted with words. — Evanna Lynch Copy Share Image
In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes. — John Clare Copy Share Image
“language – particularly the language writers use – cannot be set in stone. It is a living, organic, ever-changing thing.” — John Sutherland Copy Share Image
A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“It is the very nature of language to form rather than inform. When language is personal, which it is at its best, it reveals;… — Eugene Peterson Copy Share Image
“Just like money, we take writing for granted. Everybody reads and writes. No big deal. Actually, though, only a few hundred of the six… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the… — Carmen Boullosa 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
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image