Quotes About Prolific

I may just keep releasing singles 'til I run out of music, which is kind of cool in a way - as long as people don't go, 'Oh my God, not another one!'

No country has given the world more incomparable literature per head of population than Ireland, and for that reason alone we might be excused a small, selfish celebration that English was the language of her greatest writers.

He was particularly prolific, as David Crystal points out, when it came to attaching un- prefixes to existing words to make new words that no one had thought of before – unmask, unhand, unlock, untie, unveil and no fewer than 309 others in a similar vein. Consider how helplessly prolix the alternatives to any of these terms are and you appreciate how much punch Shakespeare gave English.

I was once told by a traditional publisher I write and publish more books than they can handle so I became a publisher. - Kailin Gow on being prolific

I wrote a thousand songs a day.

The Baby Name book can be a very dangerous tool in the hands of a prolific author.

Life is profligate, blind at this level unconcerned with notions of justice. It can afford to waste multitudes.

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2 200 songs. I was amazed.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

There is just one Diljit Dosanjh. Though I hope someday to be as prolific as he is.

Dame Barbara Cartland was an endearing eccentric, and when I interviewed her, she wanted me to listen to her dictating to her secretary one of those romantic novels that she turned out fortnightly.

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.

I've always tended to write songs prolifically.

It's hard not to go back and look at my songwriting catalog and go, 'Look, there are 600 to 700 songs here.'

Indeed, Georges Simenon, one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, only wrote sixty days a year, with three hundred days spent "doing nothing." He published more than two hundred novels.

If I wanted to do 'The Missing Files of Missy Elliott,' I have probably six albums just sitting there.

American author and poet. She wrote a total of more than 170 books.

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.

Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.

I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead of the typical three or four in previous years.

My father was prolific when it came to writing: day-timers, journals. He wrote on pieces of loose-leaf paper that he held on to, and he wrote in spiral notebooks.

The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time.

A few years ago, I wrote Battlefield Earth to celebrate my golden anniversary as a writer. At nearly a half-million words, it was a bit larger than others I had turned out in my fifty-year career. But, after all, it was my anniversary so I decided to splurge.