Lawrence Clark Powell Quotes

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

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

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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.

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

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