Lawrence Clark Powell
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Biography
Lawrence Clark Powell was an American librarian, literary critic, bibliographer and author of more than 100 books. Powell "made a significant contribution to the literature of the library profession, but he also writes for the book-minded public.
"To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength."
"Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things."
"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."
"Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant."
"Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow."
"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."