Only because of the Tao is one a writer.  What one writes is only a small expression of the Tao, which cannot be expressed.  Writing strives to capture that which is under the Tao and in harmony with it.
That which is written must operate in accordance with the Tao.  What is written must remain inconspicuous, not of conspicuous learning and status or claim, but low as the valley, in order to catch all things.  What is written must flow on, without all the trappings of popularity and current information, so as to capture the eternal laws.  Writing must not get in the way of the thinking that is beyond normal thought;  its purpose is to welcome and initiate deeper reflections not bound to conscious thought.  And so it is much about a logic that is beyond, beyond the seemingly pressing matters of the world, a higher attention.

Things that happen in the world may ultimately be understood through the Tao.

Yes, the Tao has to do with, as the famous text suggests, how the world operates, therefore with much applicable to governing, with the proper kind of wisdom and leadership.  Of course, the so-called 'real world' of gun violence, legal structure, banking systems profitable for banks, selfishness, hunger for power, is all a great corruption, such as only the modern world could possibly create with all the help of billions upon billions of microchips.  So complicated is modern life, that it makes great bureaucracies absolutely necessary, as if such were the answer to the deeper prayer of modern life, which is to ask for greater complication.  Within it all, though, the truth of the Tao, which is in some sense simple, remains.  Those who are obscure and often taken as idiots happy with their humble conditions ('when they could have so much more') are perhaps, in some circumstances, closer to the Tao's way and truth than the habitual mainstream who finds it hard to sit down and think about nothing at all.

The Tao, of course, was written to support independent minds grasping for wisdom.  It was written to support those who intuitively get the age-old wisdom of the universe, who are closer to it through their habit of humility and openness.  The Tao is a great democratic work, as it supports the downtrodden, the non-greedy, the person willing to work wherever conditions are decent and fair and healthy.

Of course, an aspect of humanity has evolved to take advantage, selfishly, of modern life, adapted to cleverness, while those of older wisdom move more slowly and honestly and harmoniously.  Much of humanity is willing to betray life itself, through egotism and many other reasons such as ease and expedience.  Certain Republicans, backed by huge selfish donors who want to operate in a world that doesn't impinge upon their own evil business practices that are strictly profit minded (and corruptions of law), have evolved to be masters of soulless gerrymandering, destroying the great democracy that is in harmony with the Tao as they claim to uphold it.

The only refuge, the only true possession, the only hint of truth and universal law, we have is the Tao.   Everything good and true and worthy and suitable comes from the deeper realm of the Tao's truth. Attempts at writing it down, as was done in a properly poetic fashion in the Tao Teh Ching, are human, not perfect, but not bad either, if the attempt is inspired by the Tao.  Remarkably useful, the Tao may be applied to cooking, exercise, life in general, and even literary criticism.

One says all this, and says it now, because it is useful sometimes to emphasize that which is good in the world created by humans and human society.  Some things, culturally, serve to increase a general fascination with the surfaces of illusory selfhood.  One doesn't get paid to delve into the deeper laws of nature in concordance with the Tao, but we all must abide by the Tao.  We must arise up independently, as we are humble, and strive to in some small way present the Tao and live as close as we can to it.