“Spouse or collaborator, it comes to the same thing. And there is work to be done. Always, always work to be done." -David Leavitt, "Partition," _The Indian Clerk_”
“A deadline gets a writer's work done done better and faster than any inspiration, if only because inspirations don't always come, but the deadline is always there.”
“The work of the Armage is rarely, if ever, done. So it has always been, and so it will always be.”
“But there was always work to be done. We spent our lives making livings.”
“It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.”
“The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.”