“Are writers and artists as important to society as scientists and engineers?” 

  In my opinion the two aren’t comparable in this way due to the fact that the impact they create on society is quite different, but that is not to say one is less important than the other. If we didn’t have one of the two the world would be changed dramatically, without art becoming dull, colorless, and without science and engineers we would be primitive almost, stuck in a way of life unchanging and not advancing. Artists change the world in ways differently than…