"To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength"
- Lawrence Clark Powell
About this Quote
This quote by Lawrence Clark Powell talks to the importance of 3 key elements for a writer to create enduring literature. Observant vision is the capability to observe and analyze the world around us. It is the capability to see the appeal and complexity of the world and to be able to record it in words. Absorptive capability is the ability to take in and comprehend the ideas and stories of others. It is the ability to gain from the works of others and to be able to incorporate those concepts into one's own work. Finally, imaginative strength is the capability to bring these concepts together in a special and meaningful method. It is the capability to produce something brand-new and original that will stand the test of time. All three of these components are important for a writer to create long lasting literature.
This quote is written / told by Lawrence Clark Powell between September 6, 1906 and March 14, 2001. He was a famous author from USA.
The author also have 6 other quotes.
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"Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted"
"All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool"
"What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better"
