[A writer] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he … - Lawrence Clark Powell

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I say again, if I cannot draw a horse, I will not write THIS IS A HORSE under what I foolishly meant for one.

Lawrence Clark Powell

[A writer] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make a living, but his work will never be anymore essentially clear and deep and honest than he himself is, and he will be judged finally not for how many copies his books have sold, but for what they have done to enrich the lives of their readers, now and in time to come.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Books, books, books in all their aspects, in form and spirit, their physical selves and what reading releases from their hieroglyphic pages, in their sight and smell, in their touch and feel to the questing hand, and in the intellectual music which they sing to the thoughtful brain and loving heart, books are to me the best of all symbols, the realest of all reality.

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