one continuous mistake

One of the books I'm spending time with today is One Continuous Mistake: Four Noble Truths for Writers. And what are those truths, you might ask?
1. Writers write.
2. Writing is a process.
3. You don't know what your writing will be until the end of the process.
4. If writing is your practice, the only way to fail is to not write.

I was particularly struck by a quote the author chose from a biography of Vladimir Nabokov:

"If only we refuse to take our world for granted, we can detect something artful lurking at the heart of life, inviting us deeper into the world, allowing us to penetrate further and further into the mystery of its creation, perhaps even promising us a new relation to everything we know."