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People who write as an artform don't exactly make books like 1984, at any rate. They're using and abusing literature in different ways, and the most common form to show this with is poetry.
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[i]Any[/i] writing is art. Literature and poetry are both equally art, and writing in prose [i]is[/i] writing as an art form.