Let’s SPEAK UP & QUOTE….about Literature!

  • Here we are with our brand new elected Logo and with our new goal: that is literature!!!!

    STEP 1

    In this Page we are to start with an interactive presentation we have built for you to let your voice be heard!

    Here’s how it works: you use this link in your smartphone or another device and take part in

    • a mini survey by answering a multiple choice question “Here are some of the different kinds of literature. Which of them are you most  familiar to and like the most?”  and
    • a Word cloud creation by answering this question “Literature- reading books: can you describe your attitude and feelings in three words or a small phrase?”

    We hope you enjoy it! Results will be shared immediately after the deadline of a week from today!

    Here are the results!!!Enjoy!

    STEP 2

    We go on with a Quote Collector Twin Board!

    Just join it by uploading what a famous person (he/she can be a writer, an artist, an actor, an athlete et.c.) has said or written about BOOKS, LITERATURE and READING! This is a QUOTE! Look for it in books or sites and upload it! Do not forget, of course, to state the name of the famous person! You can add a picture, if you wish to make your post more interesting. And don't forget to write your name as a title. Go for it!

  • Our A.Li.E.N. "Quote Collector" Twin Board!

    Anastasia K.
    Anastasia K.

    "The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library." - Albert Einstein

    Jose María Viedma
    Rosamaria Milo'''

    This is one of the literary quotes that I appreciate the most, found in the Rick Riordan's book "Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief", my favourite fantasy saga <3

    Rosa Cesarano

    This is one of the quotes from "Harry Potter and Philosopher's Stone" that I liked the most, because it reflects me in real life.

    Tonia Calò

    "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." -Nelson Mandela

    Smiltė G.

    “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.” - Cassandra Clare

    Greta Slavinskaitė
    Agota Škiudaitė

    „We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.“ - Robin Williams as John Keating in the movie „Dead poets society“

    Greta L.
    Reyhan Erol
    Lucia Caccioppoli

    "To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” – W. Somerset Maugham

    Tonia Calò
    Özge Büşra Şahin

    This is a quote of an author I really love so I just wanted to share it with everyone.

    Bahar Akmenek
    Liepa S.
    Liepa S.
    Beware of Fake quotes!

    There are alot of fake quotes on the internet! Beware!
    Luka Zulian

    Lyman Frank Baum

    Alida Devčić Crnić

    Lyman Frank Baum

    Alida Devčić Crnić

    Augustas Zigmantas
    Irene Boukla
    Paola Gargiulo
    Magdalini D.
    Erika Chatziantoniou

    A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. —Abraham Lincoln

    Maria Matara
    Maria Tsolaki
    Anna Di Riso

    "I read for self defence"
    -Woody Allen

    Maritini Chatziparadeisi
    Annarita Acampora
    Alessia Capoluongo
    Işık Yılmazer

    " Living without a book is living blind , deaf and dumb." - Seneca

    1A CL
    Angela Di Ruocco (Italy)

    Don't be afraid of making a mistake! If you don't do, you won't learn anything!!

    "Think wrong if you want to but think for yourself anyway."

    Annalisa Pistol.
    Doris May Lessing makes us understand that you have to think with your own head even in the wrong way but always and not with the other's heads.

    Valentina La Mura

    This is a quote from the book "The Little Prince". When I was a child it was one of my favorite stories and my mother always told it to me

    Lorenzo Gargiulo

    "The world changes and we change with it" Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
    This is a quote from my favorite book saga, and it represents what is currently happening: we are changing our world.

    Carmela Cesarano
    Francesco Guadagno

    This phrase is know by many people and has one of the simplest meaning, love and be loveable

    Maria De Stefano

    "We're all crazy here. I'm crazy. You're crazy."
    "How do you know I'm crazy?" Said Alice.
    "Otherwise you wouldn't have come here," said the Cat.
    This is a quote from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland book. I grew up with this book and with this little dialogue the author defines his concept of normality ... who can tell another if he is crazy? Here we are all a bit crazy .... life is pure madness!

    Martino Naclerio

    I really appreciate this quot. It has a very significant meaning as it means that you can see good things only in difficult times.

    Mariagrazia Fusco

    This is a sentence written by the author Rick Riodan in the saga "Heroes of Olympus"; which struck me a lot because in my opinion it is about real life.

    Margherita Naclerio <3
    Elena de Lama (Spain)

    " I do not copy whole things, but fragments, because I paint what seems important to me or makes me feel emotions within the whole."
    -GEORGIA O´KEEFFE

    Angelica Rispoli

    "We tried to label she, to classify she as we did with everyone, but we
    could not go beyond "original", "strange" and "crazy"."
    This wrote Jerry Spinelli in the book "Stargirl".

    Nuria de Faragó

    R.J.Palacio

    Ignacio de la Vega Rodriguez.

    Carolina Marín:
    "I really liked 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, because it makes you imagine things in history that are very hard. It makes you aware of what you have in your life. I read it a long time ago."

    Annalisa Del Sorbo

    from Harry Potter

    Diego Álvarez
    Teresa Greco
    Carmela Longobardi
    Teresa Piacente
    Imma Pia Russo
    ROBERTA INSERRA
    Andersen

    Nika Marušić

    Niobio Grubešić
    Leda Perić
    Leda Perić
    Irene Peña
    Javier Parrondo
    Marina Gener
    Francesca Inserra
    MIRIANA FAELLA
    Simone Imperati
    Ada Damla Akkoc
    Nil Erdoğan
    Aurora Martone
    Rebeca Feito
    Gregorio Buonocore
    Loreto Sichling

    "He who reads much and walks much, goes far and knows much" Miguel de Cervantes.

    Paula Leal
    Lucía Villarroel
    Soraya Ruiz
    Irene Mozos
    Rodrigo Carpio
    Andrea Izaguirre
    Marina Maroto
    Alexandros Rousopoulos
    Marta Muñoz
    Alejandra de Evan Díaz

    “Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
    - Mason Cooley.

    Chiara Donnarumma

    Most people are other people. Their opinions belong to others, their life is an imitation, their passions a quotation.
    Oscar Wilde

    Sergio Antuñano

    If you do the work you will be rewarded. in life there are no shortcuts-Michael Jordan

    Inés Sebastián.