Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things. Author: Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Quote More from Lawrence Clark Powell “I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never…” “We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of d…” “To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive …” “Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.”