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…

- Lawrence Clark Powell

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

- Lawrence Clark Powell

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

- Lawrence Clark Powell

Reading books is good, Rereading good books is better.

- Lawrence Clark Powell

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. So…

- Lawrence Clark Powell

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 ea…

- Lawrence Clark Powell

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 di…

- Lawrence Clark Powell

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 tho…

- Lawrence Clark Powell

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

- Lawrence Clark Powell