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To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.

From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire.

Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.

I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness.

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

As an artist, it feels good that we've created something that is connecting with the audience, which is what we always strive to do.

I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.

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.