Lawrence Clark Powell Quotes

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

Speak, Write, Read

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

Technology, Work, Age

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

Live, Die, Themselves

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

Great, True, End

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
Lawrence Clark Powell

Strength, Creative, Vision

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
Lawrence Clark Powell

Life, Dead, Books

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.
Lawrence Clark Powell

Great, Long, Book

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: September 6, 1906

Died: March 14, 2001

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