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Lawrence Clark Powell Quotes

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

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

Lawrence Clark Powell (1971). “The Little Package: Pages on Literature and Landscape from a Traveling Bookman's Life”, Books for Libraries

Reading books is good, Rereading good books is better.

Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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

Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

Lawrence Clark Powell (1987). “Next to Mother's Milk--: An Engelhard Lecture on the Book”

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

Lawrence Clark Powell (1954). “The Alchemy of Books: And Other Essays and Addresses on Books & Writers”

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

Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.

Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr