[lahvak]

Writing novels and analyzing novels are completely orthogonal skills. I bet there are many great authors who would completely suck at explaining other authors' works (or even their own), comparing different works, or explaining how literary works fit into and interact with the rest of the culture.

[touisteur]

Just like reading code and writing are different skills, I see some of my peers perform the second without ever learning the first (at least other's people's code but I'm following your analogy), with the trigger reflex of 1- rewrite everything always and then 2- tell other colleagues to stop rewriting dammit