For every story you hear that's tragic, there's another that's equally tragic or more so. I think you come to look at it as part of life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.
The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.
Life is such a tragicomedy.
I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
It's all about creating a back story for the character and developing emotional responses that are true to life in relation to the character. It isn't necessary to live a tragic life to create from that place.
Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.
If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.
I don't see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I'm writing about serious things, and humour is one of my tools. It's not contrived, just part of my world, part of the way things are to me.
Life is tragic but it's equally comic.