My thoughts on literature

Oral

What creates literature? This question has been plaguing my mind for a while. We may read literature in English, but that does not necessarily tell us what it is.

I can hand you so many pieces of writing, which I have read and accumulated over the time of my publishing, where the grammar is so hard to decipher that understanding what is happening can be tedious a lot of the time. However, what I read always leaving me intrigued to find out what happens next.

As some of you know, I write fanfictions for a number of websites and fandoms. Whenever I read pieces down the line, I always find faults. I always find something that could have been better. I always find at least one thing worth rethinking, but it never makes me want to change it. Literature is not what you read; it is how you read it.

Works containing 500 words, 1 000 words or 10 000 words are of no consequence, they make little difference. It can be five pages; it can be two hundred pages. It will not make anyone judge its quality before opening and sampling the first chapter. The only difference is who is reading it and how the person understands it.

Reading is not the only source of literature. I find literature in my daily life. Quotes I hear, movies I watch and scripts I read. Literature is not just empty words on a paper. Literature is the meaning behind those words.