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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 3371093" data-attributes="member: 3649">So you'll stop reading an author if he has 'too many books'? Jordan usually gets mentioned in that, with his seemingly never-ending series. But like it or not, millions of people buy them. They're one of the best selling book series ever, and he's stated in public that he won't stop writing them until people stop buying them. So, like that or not... other writers are to be judged by this criteria, because a few people might produce some books you feel are lower in quality?That's the normal pattern; that's the way it's suppossed to work. Writers write. I can't say I know of any writer that has ever 'quit while they were ahead'; virtually no-one that writes well enough to quit (presumably living off their royalties or wisely invested advances) does quit. Usually writers quit for three reasons: (1) they don't have anything more to say (2) they can't get a publishing deal (usually because of poor sales or making demands a publisher is unwilling to meet) (3) they have some injury or other life change that forces them to stop writing.Look at R.E. Howard. He was the consumate pulp writer. He wrote reams of material, a lot of it very quickly, and for one reason: money for food and rent. When something didn't sell in one market, he'd re-write it for another one. Need a Conan story for next month? Use the basic plot and some characters from a rejected sea adventure/boxing/western story or file the serial numbers off a Soloman Kane story.</blockquote>

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