The scribbler's life is never done.
Many people do not know how hard I work. There are many days I work more than 18 hours.
...that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and for aye. Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all earthly effort.
I've got this horrible feeling that I'm one of those people who'll always have to flog their guts out to get anywhere.
I work like a dog.
The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive.
I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work', because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
We're working twice as hard as any other band.
