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Drawing and writing

Is an imaginative drawing similar to imaginative writing?  Not copied, emerging from thoughts in a mind, requiring a similar type of concentration perhaps.  Drawn lines as in written lines, subjective realities emerge, gestures of thought in both cases.  If concentration is lost, the gesture of line and thoughts disperse, the expression of what was trying to emerge is lost and becomes mere writing.

Is this why writings by thinkers like Freud and Guattari are so fascinating, even though so hard to understand?  Whereas commentators like Grosz are rather dry and indigestible, though written specifically to explain. 

 Yet others, like Seigworth [i], who take Guattari's and Freud's theories and re-use them creatively in his own texts is once more fascinating and inspirational.