Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow... Quotes By : Lawrence Clark Powell | Added By:
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength Quotes By : Lawrence Clark Powell | Added By: rumapaul
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant Quotes By : Lawrence Clark Powell | Added By: rumapaul
A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come when he may, with eager hand and seeing eye. Then occurs one of the great examples of union, that of a man with Quotes By : Lawrence Clark Powell | Added By: rumapaul
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 Quotes By : Lawrence Clark Powell | Added By: rumapaul
What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation Quotes By : Lawrence Clark Powell | Added By: rumapaul