"What no [spouse] of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.” – Burton Rascoe

That said, while I was familiar with this old saying, I've never heard of Burton Rascoe, and I had to use Google to attribute the quote properly. Maybe keeping one's nose to the proverbial grindstone at the office really is the secret to success.

I doubt it, though.