
Why is it that so many prodigiously gifted male writers, from Shelley and Coleridge to Raymond Carver, have been hopeless as husbands — ... With such men, there seems to be an irreconcilable conflict between their need to be nurtured by women and their need to be free of all bonds, open to all varieties of experience.It's really terrifying that I will probably never be a prodigiously gifted male writer--what with being so wonderful to everyone all the time.