For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler. It can become an intrinsic part of their dialogue.
I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.
Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.
Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.
Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature is a thing that human beings do.
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.