Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.

I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don't talk about that, that itself is a political thing.

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.

Emotions are the basics of any art form!

I have the opportunity to learn about the fashion world, and I appreciate it as an art form... But I never want it to take over my acting.

I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.