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Lawrence Clark Powell (September 3, 1906–March 14, 2001) was a 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. His interests are reflected in the subjects that recur throughout his writings; these are history and travel, especially concerning the American Southwest, rare books, libraries and librarianship, the book trade, and book collecting."

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

Book, Defense, Die, Needs, Readers, Spokesmen

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.

Book, Heart, Music, Reading, Releases, Sing

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 something more perfect and more lasting than the life experience from which it came?

Book, Life, Make, Speak, Spring, Writing

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.

Book, Children, Reading, Reproducing, Way

Reading books is good, Rereading good books is better.

Book, Books, Good, Reading, Rereading

This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.

Doe, Gift, Language, Writers, Writing

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 a book, pleasurable, sometimes fruitful, potentially world-changing, simple; and in a library. . . witho ut cost to the reader.

Awaits, Book, Destined, Eye, Mean, Simple

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

Book, Dead, Reader, Readers, Use

Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books. . . . To be in a library is one of the purest of all experiences. This awareness of library's unique, even sacred nature, is what should be instilled in our neophites.

Book, Humble, Neophites, Presence, Sacred, Unique

I 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.

Book, Cure, Facts, Madness, Reconciled, Suffering

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

Absorptive, Creative, Factual, Fictional, Needs, Vision

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

Book, Books, Islands, Ocean, Time

[A writer] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make a living, but his work will never be anymore essentially clear and deep and honest than he himself is, and he will be judged finally not for how many copies his books have sold, but for what they have done to enrich the lives of their readers, now and in time to come.

Book, Books, Honest, Honestly, Thinking, Writing

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.

Civilization, Correspondingly, Greatness, Library, Risen

The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is, he is perceptive, he is feeling, and he has the power to express in language what he observes and reacts to.

Feelings, Good, Language, Sense, Three, Writing

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.

Book, Classic, Long, Marijuana, Speak

We all think were going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectation aren't met, but sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

Comparison, Expectations, Heard, Met, Thinking, Writing

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

Book, Communication, Heard, Love, Speak, Write