Lawrence Clark Powell said this quote

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

~ Lawrence Clark Powell

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.

~ Lawrence Clark Powell

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

~ Lawrence Clark Powell

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.

~ Lawrence Clark Powell