"Books are islands in the ocean of time.……" — Lawrence Clark Powell

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases… - Lawrence Clark Powell

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

— Lawrence Clark Powell

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18 Quotes by Lawrence Clark Powell

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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…
[A writer] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make…
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,…
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.…

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