Can I Get an "Amen?"

Found this great quote -- perfect for all the rewrites I've been working on the past week, lol:

Writing is the hard manual labor of the imagination. ~Ishmael Reed

Is that a perfect description of heavy-duty writing/editing, or what?! It's so true -- just because we don't feel the physical pain of our labor doesn't mean it isn't labor. Our work is labor of the MIND.