Thoughts about writing.

This is a passage from my Texts and Contexts book from Lit. Analysis:

If a writer at The New Yorker can't always tell whether a sentence is right or wrong--if in fact the rules of writing are so complex that not even three people in America "can set down a simple declarative sentence correctly"--then how is a college student to feel? If a grown man and an established writer is weeping onto his desk blotter and considering revising his name, then how can the ordinary student hope to write an error-free paper--especially when the rules seem to apply in one case and not in another, and the rules for determining such exceptions don't seem to exist but are instead invented and applied by those who happen to be in charge? Writing becomes a nightmare.

I couldn't have described my last year of english classes any better.