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"Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an
amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and
then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be
reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to
the public." Winston Churchill |
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 " Literature (from
Latin litterae
(plural);
letter) is the
art of
written works,
and is not bound to published sources (although, under circumstances
unpublished sources can be exempt). Literally translated, the word
literature
means "acquaintance with letters" (as in the "arts and letters"). The
two major classification of literature are poetry and prose.
"Literature" is sometimes differentiated from popular and ephemeral
classes of writing. Terms such as "literary
fiction" and "literary
merit" are used to distinguish
individual works as art-literature rather than vernacular writing, and
some critics exclude works from being "literary", for example, on
grounds of weak or faulty style, use of
slang, poor
characterization
and shallow or
contrived
construction.
Others exclude all
genres such as
romance,
crime and mystery,
science fiction,
horror and
fantasy. Pop
lyrics, which are not technically a written medium at all, have also
been drawn into this controversy." Source:
Wikipedia
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