Quotes by : Lawrence Clark Powell

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity,....

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

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine....

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library ... When....

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.