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

Quote by Lawrence Clark Powell

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The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the...

The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the...

I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is...

I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is...

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

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

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing...

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing...

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library......

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library......

A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing...

A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing...

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

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

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library......

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library......

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern,...

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern,...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in...

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in...

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for...

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for...

It's hard for corporations to understand that creativity is not just about succeeding. It's about...

It's hard for corporations to understand that creativity is not just about succeeding. It's about...

To encourage talent is to create it

To encourage talent is to create it

Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.

Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.

I don't think anybody in our business is creative. What we do is copy something...

I don't think anybody in our business is creative. What we do is copy something...

Creativity starts with a little touch of insanity and culminates with the highest trust on...

Creativity starts with a little touch of insanity and culminates with the highest trust on...

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.