The Output of Authors

From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Pearson's Magazine (april 1897, p. 456)
Pearson's Magazine (april 1897, p. 458)

The Output of Authors is an article published in the Pearson's Magazine in april 1897, including a quote from Arthur Conan Doyle.


The Output of Authors

Some Interesting Confessions of Popular Writers.

[Below is the Conan Doyle part only]


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Dr. Conan Doyle writes:—

As far as I am concerned, I think from fifteen hundred to two thousand words a very good day's work. I never take more than one contract at a time, and never promise to produce work at any rate which does not give me ample time fotr those "off colour" days which authors are, I think, more subject to than anyone else.

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