Talk:Books conversation questions

Some text.--Bob M 11:00, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

I've cut the following section as it's not really about having a conversation. Perhaps we need "quotations conversation questions?"--Bob M (talk) 06:43, 6 November 2013 (CST)

Quotations
Pick your favorite quotation, memorize it and the author. Share at home.


 * Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
 * -- Richard Steele (1672-1729), Irish writer
 * No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
 * -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), British author/critic
 * The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
 * -- Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923), short story writer and poet
 * However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?
 * -- Buddha (563-483 BC), founder of Buddhism
 * Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
 * -- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), essayist
 * A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
 * -- Robertson Davies (1913-1995), Canadian novelist
 * Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
 * -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English essayist
 * I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
 * -- Thomas B. Macaulay (1800-1859), historian
 * This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
 * -- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), screenwriter
 * A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
 * -- Franz Kafka (1883-1924), novelist
 * There is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
 * -- G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), English essayist and novelist
 * Any book that helps a child to form the habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
 * -- Maya Angelou (1928-), American poet

On your own
Bring to class a book which is important to you. Show the book to the class. Tell them the author, the title, and the main reason why this book is important to you.

Lesson from the book Compelling Conversations: Questions and Quotations on Timeless Topics by Eric Roth and Toni Aberson.