This is my understanding about literature before masters.
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“You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.”
In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures, all the suffering. All the experiences I can only live in the imagination, literature completes.”