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

Quote by Lawrence Clark Powell

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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...

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...

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......

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...

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......

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

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,...

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...

There is a fountain of youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you...

There is a fountain of youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you...

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a...

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a...

Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face.

Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face.

Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things...

Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things...

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we...

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we...

Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions...

Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions...

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow...

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow...

A warriorfeeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge,...

A warriorfeeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge,...

It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true...

It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true...