Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.

I know a lot of people did a lot of heavy lifting to make me successful and I do everything in my power not to screw it up.

I'm exhausted almost all the time.

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.

Heavy brush was all through here. So we're guessing you can almost see a trail going up there, and got down to here and started spreading out.

We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.