Author Trivia Quiz: Who Said This? (Ten Quotes About Reading)

Janalyn Voigt

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Name the quoted author. Answers follow, below.

1.  'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
   
   
2. Read every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
   
   
3.  To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
   
   
4. The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things.
   
   
5. The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
   
   
6. We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
   
   
7.  No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
   
   
8. When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.
   
   
9. The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
   
   
10. A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
    

1. Mark Twain
2. Christopher Morley
3. Victor Hugo
4. Umberto Eco
5. John Keats
6. E.M. Forster 
7. Charles Dickens
8. Maya Angelou
9. Sir James Barrie
10. Henry Ward Beecher

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