Achieve Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.

— Joyce Carol Oates

The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer.

— Walter Mosley

I believe productivity is a deeply personal thing. We all have different brains and, therefore, different preferences, perspectives, and situations where we feel most…

— Mark Manson

“Productivity, I discovered, is a broad church that tolerates many creeds. Some successful academics write daily, others sporadically; some at home, others at work;…

— Helen Sword

Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in…

— Tim Jackson

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no…

— Cyril Connolly

Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing…

— Aidan Chambers

“Productivity, put simply, is the name we give our attempts to figure out the best uses of our energy, intellect, and time as we…

— Charles Duhigg

Productivity depends on many factors, including our workforce's knowledge and skills and the quantity and quality of the capital, technology, and infrastructure that they…

— Janet Yellen

Writing a book is a brilliant thing because once you've finished it, you've done it, and there's the potential for it to go on…

— Tom Hodgkinson

What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this…

— Emile M. Cioran

All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of themselves a…

— Graham Swift