Flaws of Great Writers

[ChristopherSea]

A great science fiction writer and a favorite of mine, Phillip K Dick, was very much a flawed writer and and sadly a flawed character. He was a drug addict and paranoid schizophrenic, which is probably why his work was so different, albeit convoluted at times. He would paint brilliant stories with the mind, time, altered states of reality, dreams and hallucination, not only at the center of the plot, but twisting it about on a wild ride. Some of his criticism included subplot holes, sometimes a nonsensical line perhaps, but these flaws fit into the stories and stream of consciousness runs, as to be minor to the overall work.

Just another thought/query on the overall subject, can’t some writer’s flaws be directly attributed to their editors? Most works are edited.