Meaning in writing

From How to Find the Meaning of Life Through Writing, by Victoria Mixon, author of The Art & Craft of Fiction:

So when we have accepted that there is meaning to our lives, and sought that meaning through this extraordinary craft that is our chosen tool for revelation, and faced that meaning in those ephemeral moments of brilliance in our writing, and accepted our inevitable thwarting at its hands (which thwarting, I’m afraid, really is inevitable), we come to understand something.