Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

In a way, if you like, at one end of the spectrum of sympathy, you've got the tabloid newspaper. At the other end of the spectrum, you've got tragedy and tragic art. And I suppose I'm arguing that we should learn a little bit about what's happening in tragic art. It would be insane to call Hamlet a loser. He is not a loser, though he has lost. And I think that is the message of tragedy to us, and why it's so very, very important, I think.

活着就是受苦，生存就是在苦难中找到一些意义。