Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.
Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.
Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.
One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.
Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.