A Writing Quote for Sunday, Courtesy of Ray Bradbury
“Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you’re doomed.”
~ Ray Bradbury, 1920 – 2012
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Although to be honest, much as I admire Ray Bradbury—and I do, as I discussed here when he died—I think about a novel like To Kill A Mockingbird, the one-and-only novel penned by Harper Lee and I have to say: quality, yes; doomed, I don’t think so.
Well, yes – but we don’t know how much Harper Lee wrote, only how much she published, which is not quite the same thing, is it?
A fair point, Catherine—and in fact she wrote many articles, but in terms of novels I understand she only ever penned two: Mockingbird and one subsequent that was either never completed or otherwise never published.