Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.

We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.

Craft is part of the creative process.

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway."

[Becoming a Writer/ The List, O Magazine, November 2009]

It's not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.