Books Quote by Lawrence Clark Powell Download Open image “Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.” — Lawrence Clark Powell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Life Use
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them…I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their… — Laurel Lea Copy Share Image
... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. — Gilbert Highet 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
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 book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader,… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen 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)
