Every time I enter a country and have to write down my occupation at customs, I'm like, 'I don't know... Author? Host? Writer? Stand-up?' I usually write 'author' - that's the safest bet.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American.
I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.
Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.
I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!
I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.
I'm an artist and a journalist. I travel around the world very often for 'Vice Magazine,' and I draw and I write about prisons, about conflict zones.
I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.
When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.
When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.