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...

Quote by Lawrence Clark Powell

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

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

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.

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...

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......

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...

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...

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,...

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......

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 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...

Were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they...

Were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they...

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It...

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It...

Money is only congealed snow.

Money is only congealed snow.

He who marries for money earns it.

He who marries for money earns it.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Love is the only gold.

Love is the only gold.

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all...

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all...