“ Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things. ”
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“ To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. ”
- Lawrence Clark Powell- Copy
“ To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. ”
- Lawrence Clark Powell- Copy
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“ Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things. ”
- Lawrence Clark Powell- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Lawrence Clark Powell- Copy
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“ Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant. ”
- Lawrence Clark Powell- Copy
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“ To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. ”
- Lawrence Clark Powell- Copy
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“ Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things. ”
- Lawrence Clark Powell- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Lawrence Clark Powell- Copy
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“ Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant. ”
- Lawrence Clark Powell- Copy
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“ 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 public library… ”
- Lawrence Clark Powell- Copy
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“ 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 public library… ”
- Lawrence Clark Powell- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant. ”
- Lawrence Clark Powell- Copy
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“ To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. ”
- Lawrence Clark Powell- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Lawrence Clark Powell- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Lawrence Clark Powell- Copy
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“ To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. ”
- Lawrence Clark Powell- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Lawrence Clark Powell- Copy
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“ Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant. ”
- Lawrence Clark Powell- Copy
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“ To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. ”
- Lawrence Clark Powell- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Lawrence Clark Powell- Copy
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“ To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. ”
- Lawrence Clark Powell- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Lawrence Clark Powell- Copy
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“ To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. ”
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“ To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. ”
- Lawrence Clark Powell- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Lawrence Clark Powell- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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 public library… ”
- Lawrence Clark Powell- Copy
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