Nothing the writer can do is ever enough.
Of course there is nothing that cannot be done incorrectly.
But who knows what good might come from the least of us? From the bones of old horses is made the most beautiful Prussian Blue.
I believe in guilt. There's not enough guilt around these days for my taste.
I think the writer has to be responsible to signs and dreams. If you don't do anything with it, you lose it.
Writers when they're writing live in a spooky, clamorous silence, a state somewhat like the advanced stages of prayer but without prayer's calming benefits.