Which might seem like a strange thing to acknowledge, in a book that purports to be, to some extent, about the craft of writing, but only insofar as, within a writer’s mind, the critical apparatus is inextricable from the creative apparatus, which I don’t think it is. Meaning, I think the two things are extricable, and can be separated one from the other. So that a person’s critical faculties can be, in some cases, better than, or superior to, his or her creative faculties.