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  • Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They were all phenomenal. Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn't mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it's just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.

    "Billy Joel on Not Working and Not Giving Up Drinking". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.nytimes.com. May 24, 2013.