Quotes About Prolific

Hamilton was an exuberant genius who performed at a fiendish pace and must have produced the maximum number of words that a human being can scratch out in forty-nine years.

Berns made fifty-one pop chart singles in seven years;

Many years, I would publish four books - an anthology, a book of criticism, a new book of poems, a book of essays.

Cory Doctorow should be too busy for lunch. He's co-editor of, and a prolific contributor to, one of the most influential blogs in the world, Boing Boing. Over the past decade the Canadian-born writer has published 16 books, mostly science fiction novels. He campaigns vigorously on the politics of the digital age.

I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.

I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that.

Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.

To me, it's all about opening all the doors and getting people to be not only prolific, but creative and having control of their music.

Generally, I don't bother trying to keep up with prolific bands - but Thee Oh Sees demand it.

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Don't think about making art. Just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they're deciding, make even more art.

I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.

I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. Some of it will be Strokes, some of it will be I don't know what - stuff for pop singers. TV themes. I've got a jar stuffed with songs, all these ideas that are just me humming into a recording device.

I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

I'm gonna put out another album and then another album after that. And then I'm gonna put out a mixtape, and then I'm gonna put out another ten songs, and then I'm gonna put out a hundred more songs and a thousand songs after that.

If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.

Goat shit small, but goat shit plenty.

There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote nothing like enough to satisfy their admirers, and Jane Austen is certainly one of these.

The kids now are more productive than we ever were; they're a lot more prolific and productive in the sense that they have to have music out all the time.

Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.

Some writers are prolific; some are shape-shifters. It's rare and intimidating to encounter one who is both.

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.

People like Busta Rhymes would say, 'Clinton Sparks doesn't do mix tapes; he does albums. He just throws albums out on the street.'