Writing is manual labor of the mind - like laying pipe.

What a writer brings to any story is an attitude

a sense of well-being so profound that I did not want to go to sleep.

I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it.

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

Being exposed to the enlisted Army was an eye-opener. I thought everyone was like me, but the enlisted Army is a constituency of the dispossessed.