Introduction
Next year we are going to discover the fascinating world of literature. This WebQuest gives you the possibility to choose the first literary work we are going to enjoy next September.
Writing and reading are extremely important to human beings. Here are some quotes about literature.
Books are humanity in print.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
A losing trade, Sir: I assure you literature is a drug.
— George Borrow
Every man's memory is his private literature.
— Aldous Huxley
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
— Victor Hugo
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
— Benjamin Franklin
Literature adds to reality, it does not simple describe it. It enriches the becessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
— C. S. Lewis
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
— Marcus Tulius Cicero
Literature is the immortality of speech.
— August Wilhelm von Schlegel
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the who wrote.
— E. M. Forster
The crown of literature is poetry.
— W. Somerset Maugham