Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They were all phenomenal. Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn't mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it's just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
Every week, I'm faced with, and aware of, 10-14 different reviewable albums that, in a perfect world, I'd be able to pop a review out of. But I'm just one person who, while maintaining my sanity, can only do 5-6 reviews per week.
I used to say when I was younger, 'I'm exhausted; writers can only write for four hours a day and that's done.' Now I find, as I'm getting older and I'm more aware of time, I can actually write all day.
It just happens I write fast and always have done.
I'm almost back to being able to write as much as six hours a day .
A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.
Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
Most writers can write three times as many books as I have and still live a life.
If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
I'm not the slowest writer that you know.
Most comics can't produce the amount of material I produce.
The more a man writes, the more he can write.
I think we have a great deal of mythology around writing. We believe that only a few people can really do it. I wrote a book called 'The Right to Write.' In it, I argued that all of us have the capacity to write. That it's as normal to write as it is to speak.
The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.
