Lawrence Clark Powell Quotes

"Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant."
- Lawrence Clark Powell
(Related: Books, Defense)

"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
(Related: Civilization, Greatness, End, University, Will, World)

"To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength."
- Lawrence Clark Powell
(Related: Strength, Vision, Literature, Needs, Writer)

"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 changed."
- Lawrence Clark Powell
(Related: Age, Work, Books, Children, Printing, Reading, Routine)

"Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow."
- Lawrence Clark Powell

"Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things."
- Lawrence Clark Powell
(Related: Life, Books)