Rewriting Creation

The word is the most powerful tool. God created the world, the light, the dark, with words. In the beginning was the word….

That is the power of the original, perfect language that we have lost. But we still have fragments left. Diluted, but still powerful. We are gods in embryo and are driven to create as God creates. That is why every culture throughout history has produced literature whether oral or written. That is why we feel driven to create music, literature and art. But literature. Literature is the most powerful of all because it uses the most powerful medium. The author creates a world using language, just as God did. However, literature is bigger than just one world, because not only is a world created when the author writes it but it creates a blueprint from which thousands of worlds are built, a new one created whenever someone reads the book. The reader is therefore creating their very own world, even if they never thought it possible for them to do so, or felt any artistic inclination at all. It lies within all of us. Authors just make it more accessible for everyone else.