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My role as a novelist is to explore ideas and imagination, and hopefully that will inspire people from my world to continue dreaming and to believe in dreams.

I think I have a job, which is to present a character in a story and entertain you and divert you with my work - that's it.

Before I began concentrating on writing, in my free time I was an artist, making and selling etchings illustrating stories based on my readings in classical literature.

Essentially, I'm a storyteller, and I make my living by telling stories, be they music or nonfiction or fiction.

For most of my career I illustrated books for other people.

I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

My name is out there right now. I'm creative and innovative. I should capitalize on it.

I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.