Lawrence Clark Powell Quotes

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

- Lawrence Clark Powell

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I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single question, From how deep and true an impulse did it spring? Was it written merely to shock? Only to make money? Or was it written to create somethin. - 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

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