quotes by Lawrence Clark Powell

"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

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

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

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

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