"I knew I wanted to write about that, but didn't yet know my angle. Then a couple of years later, I was reading Plutarch's Life of Nicias, where he describes how some of those defeated Athenians survived by quoting lines from Euripides, the most popular dramatist amongst the Sicilians... That's my story: who were these Syracusans who left Athenian prisoners to die in this open-air pit, yet were so fascinated by their drama that they're willing to save them in exchange for these precious lines?"
"Some of my favourite books and films are about friendship... you can ground it in a friendship that people will understand. Most people have experienced that sense of their life not necessarily going quite the way that they'd hoped, some unrealised or unfulfilled ambitions."
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