Umera Ahmad Quotes

I write at a pace that suits me, and sometimes it's two books a year, but most often it's one.

Since 1988, I have been writing steadily. I did decide a couple of years or so ago to scale back to writing one book a year - a sort of semi-retirement. But I never did have much success with that plan!

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all.

I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.

Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.

I don't write a novel every two years.

Most writers can write three times as many books as I have and still live a life.

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first.

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.

In 2007, I probably wrote four screenplays in the entire year. Every three months I was writing a screenplay.

I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.

The most common misperception about me is that I write fast. I just write often. Every hour that I can.

I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me.

I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.

You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.

For the past few years my fans have made it very clear that they would like to read my novels and revisit my family of characters faster than I can write them. For them, I am willing to make a change to my working methods so the stories in my head can reach the page more frequently.

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

I don't write as much now as I used to, but I write. The lines still come, maybe periodically, and I'll go through these little bursts of time where I write a lot of things then a long period of time where maybe I don't write anything.

I write a thousand words a day.

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.

I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages, and that's from 9:30 A.M. until 6 P.M.

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.