Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do.
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
The core of my writing is not art but truth.
I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.
I've always felt writing is an art. Publishing is a business. I felt strongly if I was going to write, I would write what I wanted to, and if the 'market' didn't respond, there was nothing I could really do about it.
I don't see myself as an artist, as a writer. The sort of writing that I do, which is popular fiction, it's work. I have contracts to fulfil, and I have deadlines to meet.
Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career.
It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.
I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up the words of art and create them verbally rather than build them.