"Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind."
The saying "How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world” in the context of the novel refers to the hope of happiness that Portia had on return to Belmont. This was after she had helped Antonio in getting justice against shylock.
Creative writing is considered to be any writing, fiction, poetry, or non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, and technical forms of literature.