Showing posts with label author trivia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label author trivia. Show all posts

Saturday, March 19, 2011

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

Janalyn Voigt
Surprise Pop Quiz!

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
© 2009-2011 Janalyn Voigt

Friday, December 11, 2009

Free For All Friday: Author Quotes About Christmas

Can you name the author for each quote about Christmas? (Answers follow, below.)
  1. There's nothing sadder in this world than to wake Christmas morning and not be a child.
  2. This is the message of Christmas: we are never alone.
  3. I will honour Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year.
  4. At Christmas, all roads lead to home.
  5. The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect!
  6. Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
  7. Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
  8. One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day. Don't clean it up too quickly.
  9. At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.
  10. Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
Answers
  1. Erma Bombeck
  2. Taylor Caldwell
  3. Charles Dickens (from A Christmas Carol)
  4. Marjorie Holmes
  5. Charles N. Barnard
  6. Hamilton Wright Mabie
  7. Norman Vincent Peale
  8. Andy Rooney
  9. Thomas Tusser
  10. Larry Wilde
Merry Christmas, Everyone!

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