Abstract
Philip Marlow, hospitalised crime novelist: “… are you one of the majority who thinks that writing isn't work?”
Doctor: “No, of course not.”
Marlow: Or do you by any chance labour under the delusion that it consists solely of putting words on a page without thought, as if I was a Sunday Times journalist or something?”
– from Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective (1986), repeated on BBC One, February 2