Lawrence Clark Powell, on writing, speaking and reading:

Write to be understood,

speak to be heard,

read to grow.

- Lawrence Clark Powell.

Lawrence Clark Powell, on books:

Books are islands in the ocean of time.

They are also oases in the deserts of time.

- Lawrence Clark Powell.

Born on this day – Lawrence Clark Powell:

Lawrence Clark Powell

Writer

Librarian

Bibliographer

September 3, 1906 – March 14, 2001

Credits:

Books:

A Passion for Books (1958); A Southwestern Century; Books in My Baggage (1960); California Classics: The Creative Literature of the Golden State (1971); Eucalyptus Fair (1992); Fortune & Friendship: An Autobiography (1968); Heart of the Southwest; Islands of Books; Land of Fiction; Life Goes On: Twenty More Years of Fortune and Friendship (1986); Philosopher Pickett; Photographs of the Southwest (1976) (with Ansel Adams); Robinson Jeffers, the Man and His Work; Southwestern Book Trails (1982); The Alchemy of Books (1954); The Blue Train (1977); The Little Package (1964); The Malibu (with W.W. Robinson); The Manuscripts of D.H. Lawrence; The River Between (1979); Winter Crossing 1952 - Travel Notes from a Bygone era (1986).