Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.
Lawrence Clark PowellTags: communication
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
Lawrence Clark PowellTags: books literature reader readership
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
Lawrence Clark PowellTags: life books death read literature
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
Lawrence Clark PowellTags: books writing vision literature creativity
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 PowellWe 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 PowellTags: reading books communication technology
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 PowellI 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.
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