18 quotes about reading by 18 famous authors. It would be a tough quiz so to make it easier I’ve added one of their works in brackets… but not to make it too easy it isn’t always an obvious one!
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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies…The man who never reads lives only one. (Dying of the Light)
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George RR Martin
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JRR Tolkien
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We read to know we’re not alone. (Motherland)
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William Nicholson
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Mark Twain
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Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. (The Bad Beginning)
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Lemony Snickett
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George Orwell
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The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. (Because a Little Bug Went Ka-choo)
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Dr Seuss
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Dan Brown
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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. (The Silver Chair)
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CS Lewis
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Stephen Fry
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. (Salome)
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Oscar Wilde
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Margaret Atwood
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He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head. (Paper Towns)
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John Green
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Roald Dahl
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′Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read. (Pudd’nhead Wilson)
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Mark Twain
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William Nicholson
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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! (Lady Susan)
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Jane Austen
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CS Lewis
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Books are a uniquely portable magic. (Finders Keepers)
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Stephen King
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Dan Brown
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I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. (Boy)
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Roald Dahl
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David Walliams
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Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. (Shadow of the Wind)
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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Stephen King
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People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. (Seize the Day)
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Saul Bellow
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Lemony Snickett
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Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul. (Blonde)
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Joyce Carol Oates
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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The best books… are those that tell you what you know already. (The Road to Wigan Pier)
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George Orwell
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George RR Martin
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A word after a word after a word is power. (The Handmaid’s Tale)
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Margaret Atwood
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Jane Austen
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Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators. (The Stars’ Tennis Balls)
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Stephen Fry
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Dan Brown
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You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. (Nights at the Circus)
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Angela Carter
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John Green
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Very enjoyable. Nice balance between doable and very hard. CS Lewis and a cup of tea large enough! Who’d a thunk it!
[NB I commented on the Numbers quiz but mistyped my email address: corrected below.
Keep up the good work
Gally