Though I do wonder if it is ever the other way around; that is, if ever there is a writer whose creative faculties are superior to his or her critical faculties. Because one cannot really be a good creative writer without also being a good critic, at least of one’s own work. Even if such a writer never happens to articulate his or her aesthetic judgements by way of criticism per se. The consequence of which, to my mind, is that the creative talent of any given artist will never surpass the fineness of that artist’s critical ‘eye’.