Lawrence Clark Powell

Quotes by Lawrence Clark Powell

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Librarian and author · American

American librarian and author

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“Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.”

“Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.”

“Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.”

“To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.”

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“Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.”
— Lawrence Clark Powell
books death life literature

“To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.”
— Lawrence Clark Powell
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“We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not...”
— Lawrence Clark Powell
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“Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.”
— Lawrence Clark Powell
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“Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.”
— Lawrence Clark Powell
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“No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library ... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.”
— Lawrence Clark Powell
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