The writer is often faced with two choices--turn away from the reality of life's intimidating complexity or conquer its mystery by battling with it. The writer who chooses the former soon runs out of energy and produces elegantly tired fiction.
A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing
...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.