Lawrence Clark Powell > Quotes

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

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

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

“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

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

“A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come when he may, with eager hand and seeing eye. Then occurs one of the great examples of union, that of a man with a book, pleasurable, sometimes fruitful, potentially world-changing, simple; and in a public library...without cost to the reader.”
― Lawrence Clark Powell

“Books, books, books in all their aspects, in form and spirit, their physical selves and what reading releases from their hieroglyphic pages, in their sight and smell, in their touch and feel to the questing hand, and in the intellectual music which they sing to the thoughtful brain and loving heart, books are to me the best of all symbols, the realest of all reality.”
― Lawrence Clark Powell

“I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my dearest friends have been drawn from those likewise suffering from book madness.”
― Lawrence Clark Powell

“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.”
― Lawrence Clark Powell

“Write to be understood, Speak to be heard, Read to grow!”
― Lawrence Clark Powell

“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

“Write to be understood,
speak to be heard,
read to grow”
― Lawrence Clark Powell, Poems of Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass