It’s less true of other art forms, but for some reason with writers in particular we want to know where to stick them, where to shelve them. There’s a general tendency in the world to force people to assume positions that are much more rigid than what comes naturally to them. Once you make what you think is a choice that’s going to empower you in some way, often it turns out somewhere down the line that it turned into a trap; you were actually closing out a lot of options to yourself without realizing it.

— Michael Chabon