beaucoup Smith's List: Writers and geniuses with day jobs

You never see a dollar. You sign a lot of drafts. You see surprisingly few  people. You do the greater part of your work either in your own office or  in lawyers' offices. You don't even see the country; you see law offices  and hotel rooms. You try to do your traveling by night and often do it  night after night.... After 25 years or more of that sort of thing, he  finds it difficult sometimes to distinguish himself from the papers he  handles and comes almost to believe that he and his papers constitute a  single creature, consisting principally of hands and eyes, lots of hands  and eyes.