Publication Rate Quotes

The thing is - do we really need another writer who writes a book every eighteen months, whether the quality is wonderful or not? I mean, maybe. But I can name twenty off the top of my head who do it. Maybe what we need is a writer like me who goes very slow, as well.

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.

What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.

Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.

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.

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

I think it's true to say that in 1973 I could read every book of poems that was published in a year, and I did.

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 don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.

The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.

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

If you read three books a day you couldn't read all the poetry that's being published.

It's very rare that publications double their frequency.

I don't write a novel every two years.

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