I would recommend prison not only to aspiring writers but to aspiring politicians, too. Whenever the secular arm is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before.
Nobody's exempt from that.
The more arbitrary power government employees possess, the more they are transformed into a master class. At some point, the sheer accumulation of penalties and threats in the statute book fundamentally changes the citizen's relation to the government. Rather than a government of laws, it becomes a government of threats, intimidation, and browbeating. If Congress and the courts want to restore the credibility of the federal government, the federal statute book and the Code of Federal Regulations must be stripped of those edicts that hang like thousands of swords of Damocles over the heads of peaceful Americans. The time is come to end the reign of the czars and to cease expecting salvation from arbitrary power.