A Quote and a Thought on Wrting

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. --Anthony Trollope.

Trollope apparently rose each morning at four a.m. and wrote for three hours. This allowed him to churn out his prodigious catalog of literary works and work for a living. Graham Greene is said to have used a similar method. Two hours a day equalled 500 words of prose a day for Greene, or 180 thousand pages a year. That comes out two a little more than two good length novels and a novella each year.