The Biblical endorsement of [artistic] creativity is matched by its respect for beauty and enjoyment. When God formed paradise, the perfect human environment, he "made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food" (Genesis 2:9, ESV). God's design for human life, in other words, is aesthetic as well as utilitarian.

How can a person read literature to the glory of God? By enjoying the beauty that human creativity has produced and recognizing God as the ultimate source of this beauty and creativity. Christians do not need to defend literature, as most people have done, solely on the didactic grounds that it teaches us. Literature has a reason for being quite apart from that. In a Christian worldview, literature exists for more than our enjoyment, but not for less.

Leland Ryken, "Thinking Christianly about Literature"