The Output of Authors
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
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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