Nevertheless, fishermen rarely feel the urge to write, while works about the ocean by men of letters are mostly expression of sentiments, glorification or imagination. Those works written with the writers 'feet firmly on land are not part of genuine ocean literature.
但漁民們鹹少有動筆的慾望，而文學家以大海為主題的作品，大多只是一種文人的抒懷、歌頌或想像，那樣在岸上觀海的作品並不屬於海洋文學。