Who said "Work is the forge upon which we shape ourselves."?

This quote is attributed to John Banville.

Work is the forge upon which we shape ourselves. - John Banville

"Work is the forge upon which we shape ourselves."

John Banville Work

Novelist Irish Born 1945 (age 81)

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

"Memory is a form of forgetting."

"We are all wanderers on this earth."

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."

"Hard work never killed anybody."

"Work with purpose and integrity."

"Hard work pays off in the end."

"A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do."