If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.
The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.