Good litterature is litterature that sells

>>9495041
No quality of you or your work will ever be remembered forever. One day the sun will die. The best you can hope for is to make an anonymous contribution to the human race that pushes it in one tiny fraction towards a future culture of your own unfounded tastes.

>>9495041
What "matters" is a value judgement so if that's the only thing that matters to you, the conversation pretty much ends there. Great thread, OP.

Personal value is subjective. You can define it, but somebody else will always be able to disagree.
With that said, writing is very therapeutic. If I am never able to sell any of it, I will not feel like it was something I should never have bothered with.

i actually kind of agree with you but only in regards to ambitious works.

>>9495041
what is the context of this gif?

>>9495121
See, this is a good response. Simply stating that it's a matter off opinion, while true, doesn't add to the discution. We are thinkers, /lit/, even when it's discution simply for the sake of discution, we should never seek simple non-answers.

Here's a follow up point: The purpose of literature is one or both of the following; entertainment and/or spreading a message. The more people who buy the book, the more people it will entertain and/or spread its message to. In other words, the more it sells, the more it fulfills its purpose.

>>9495041
No, that's popular literature.

Good literature is simply literature that is good.

If you read a story, and you enjoyed it or got something useful out of it, it was good literature.

>>9495748
yes, but every author who is considered "good" had a book that outsold expectations, if not a best seller...everyone likes to believe it's just about art but let's be real it's not

>>9495748
do you think anyone would have gave a shit about goethe's other shit if sorrows of young werther wasn't a smash hit that sold a bazillion copies?

>>9495041
Draw dimes is better than quality? No way.

>>9495041
People who hold this view spell it "litterature", which I can't help but see as a Freudian slip.

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0/10 this is ridiculous apply yourself

>>9495748
no, that's subjectively good literature