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I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.

— Joseph Pulitzer

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.

— Judith Rossner

Back in my pulp-mag days, I worked from about 8:30 to noon, took an hour off for lunch, and worked again from one to three, for a work day of five and a half hours or so. I wrote 20 to 30 pages of copy in that time, doing it all first draft, so that I was able to produce a short story of 5,000-7,500 words in a single day.

— Robert Silverberg

I don't have many hours in a day, as I'm essentially a single parent. But fortunately, I'm a really fast writer. My goal is usually 10 pages a day. Sometimes more, sometimes less, but by the end of the week, I aim for at least 10,000 words.

— Michelle Gagnon

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

— Robert B. Parker

Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.

— Ernest Gaines

Three hundred words in a day is not a lot. So much of it is thinking before writing. And then there's the cutting. But you do what you do and keep moving forward.

— Holly Black

✗Opposing Perspectives

Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.

— Elinor Lipman

Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.

— David Mitchell

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

— Michael Connelly

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

— J. K. Rowling