"[A writer] must try to think clearly, to……" — 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 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 they have done to enrich the lives of their readers, now and in time to come."
—
Lawrence Clark Powell
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
18 Quotes by Lawrence Clark Powell
Lawrence Clark Powell has 18 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he…
-
The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense,…
-
I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask…
-
This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.
-
No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer…
-
I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure,…
-
Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.
-
A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It…
-
Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books.... To be…
-
Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.
-
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
-
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work.…
See all 18 quotes by Lawrence Clark Powell »
More Anymore Quotes
This quote is filed under Anymore Quotes,
one of 3,628 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.
— Chet Atkins
-
Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you…
— Margaret Atwood
-
There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy…
— Sebastian Bach
-
Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we…
— Michelle Bachelet
-
When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America…
— Lester Bangs
-
We aren't using Guantanamo Bay anymore to take additional terrorists. That was the perfect facility to be able to use…
— Michele Bachmann
-
I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a…
— Annie Baker
-
A couple of years after I arrived in Hollywood, everything that was Latino was fashionable, and years after, my thought…
— Antonio Banderas
-
We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going…
— Antonio Banderas
-
We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.
— Javier Bardem
-
I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you…
— Roseanne Barr
-
I used to want to be a movie star so I wouldn't have to live in trailers anymore. And now…
— Roseanne Barr
See all 3,628 Anymore Quotes »