Is the writer as an artist special, and if so how?

During Margaret Atwood’s Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing, she discusses how writers appear to have been labelled with a ‘socially acknowledged role’, one that ‘carries some sort of weight or impressive significance’. This I think can be agreed upon if we consider the term writer to only be associated with the more traditional act of writing novels or poetry. That person certainly appears to carry a level of respect within society, but what about those who write video games for example, or perhaps adverts that go up on the side of buses? Games are still criminally treated as a lesser art form, and it seems to me that those writing adverts are judged as a less important writer compared to the exalted novelists, poets and playwrights - those who are perhaps described as artists, as opposed to just purely being a writer.

I don’t think that any one individual and their attempts at recording the world around them is intrinsically more worthy than any other. Sure, some documents are more highly valued within a certain episteme than others. Right now I doubt that many would argue that the film Inception is greater than the novel The Great Gatsby for example. But such a judgment is rooted entirely in the ideologies of the moment rather than anything universal. Certainly I argue that Fitzgerald the novelist is no more special than Nolan the scriptwriter, and he is no more worthy than the graffiti artist who writes on a street wall. There is nothing that separates any writer out as an artist, as special, except the bias of the time period.