The writing has changed, in your hands, and in a twinkling, from an expression of your notions to an epistemological tool…You attend…Now the earlier writing looks soft and careless. Process is nothing; erase your tracks. The path is not the work. I hope your tracks have grown over; I hope birds ate the crumbs; I hope you will toss it all and not look back…The part you must jettison is not only the best written part; it is also, oddly that part which was to have been the very point.
-The Writing Life by Annie Dillard