What is Literature?

At the begging of junior high I thought literature was only a suffering school class in which you have to read boring stories for getting a good grade but when I started reading some pieces of literature I was interested in I started loving it.

Literature has to be a creative writing that people can enjoy it when they are reading it.

The original meaning of Literature is:

"Literature is the art of language"

As the meaning says is the art in which the human can communicate his ideas and emotions of his own universe.

I love the variety that literature has for all types of persons. (novels are the ones I personally love)