"In writing classes, if nowhere else, it is entirely permissible to spend large chunks of your time..."

“In writing classes, if nowhere else, it is entirely permissible to spend large chunks of your time off in your own little dream world. Still—do you really need permission and a hall-pass to go there? Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word ‘WRITER’ on it before you can believe you are one? God, I hope not.”

- Stephen King, On Writing.