Great writing involves protecting one’s intuitions, even one’s ignorance. Knowing, as such, is not always an advantage to making significant art. Acknowledging one’s ignorance, and learning to respect personal as well as human limitation, while one works with the welter of fantasies that tumble between certainty and helplessness, is not learnable in school, and can probably be dealt with in what I would call “neutral solitude”
—Companion Spider