The activity of writing, then, is not to be distinguished from the activity of self-exploration. It consists in contemplating the sea of internal images, discerning connections, and setting these out in grammatical sentences (I could never conceive of a network of meaning too complex to be expressed in a series of grammatical sentences, says Murnane, whose views on grammar are firm, even pedantic.)

The quest for the girl from Bendigo Street, The New York Review of Books, v. 59. n. 20, December 20, 2012