Top 66 Prolific Quotes

When I listen to and play the songs from ‘Narrow Stairs’ now, that record feels like a record where we had established a style that arguably was more our own than it was in the beginning. Going into that record, I felt a lot more confident in my songwriting. It was a fairly prolific time for me.

When people tell me I’m a prolific writer, it’s a nice thing to say. But I think to myself, ‘Yeah, but I don’t do anything else.’

It’s not just that there’s no other spokesperson for the executive seat of power in a democratic republic anywhere in the world where you see that type of lying. It’s that there’s never been a spokesman for the executive seat in power who is such a prolific liar as Sarah Sanders.

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.

There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.

I’m really more prolific than most stand-ups. My act changes. I do fold in new experiences, new observations, whatever you want to call it.

But I was ready for it and I knew I could do it. I’ve just turned 40, I have a son and I feel more settled and driven than ever. I think my 40s will be my most prolific time. It’s a very rare life you get to lead as a sitcom guy.

The only way to sustain a career is to be as prolific as you can be, and open to opportunities.

I spend a lot of time thinking, if not daydreaming. People think of me as a genre writer, and a genre writer is supposed to be prolific. Since that’s how people perceive me, they have to say I’m prolific. But I don’t find that either complimentary or accurate.

What the Web has never figured out is how to pay for reporting, which, with the collapse of print newspapers, is in desperately short supply, and without which even the most prolific commenters will someday run out of things to say.

That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.

Vita Sackville-West is one of my favorite female icons. She was a writer and a prolific gardener, but she also had a relationship with Virginia Woolf, and she was married to Sir Harold Nicolson. She was a woman who lived outside of norms.

Jimmy Anderson deserves everything he gets, and even though he is an Englishman I will be delighted for him when he goes past my record and becomes the most prolific fast bowler in Test history.

I don’t think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance.

I first read ‘The Lord of the Rings’ as an adolescent. It’s a dense novel, a sprawling, complex monster of a book populated with a prolific number of characters caught up in a narrative structure that, frankly, does not lend itself to conventional storytelling.

I felt a real kinship with Steve Bruner. He’s one of those guys that is so prolific that he has a hard time keeping up with himself. I’m the opposite and move at a glacial place.

I don’t feel prolific. I feel like I’m plodding along. Each day you sit down, and you hope that you get your work done.

Generally, I don’t bother trying to keep up with prolific bands – but Thee Oh Sees demand it.

I grew up in one of the most prolific high-school-wrestling programs in the country, and MMA fighters are more successful when they have that amateur-wrestling background.

I’m hoping I’m remembered as one of the most prolific shot-blockers.

I’m not an extremely prolific writer. I don’t write songs all the time.

Margaret Cho is definitely one of the people, like just watching or hearing her stand up back in the days when stand-up albums were pretty prolific. Seeing her in Carnegie Hall was pretty revolutionary for me to be like, ‘Oh, this Asian person talking about her sexuality.’

I’m a prolific tweeter. It allows me to respond to the news of the day or comment on something Jacob Rees-Mogg has said on behalf of my constituents.

I’ve been lucky enough in my career to work with a few people who are really prolific.

My house is full of paintings by my mother Pam. She was a fantastic, prolific artist but had no confidence in herself, thanks to my father running her down. They married during the war when she was 19 – she had planned to go to art school. But my father didn’t want her to work, so she became a housewife.

As part of Depeche Mode, I don’t think it’s right for me to be using my own songs for a solo project. I’m not a very prolific songwriter, so I keep those for Depeche Mode.

I’m not prolific, I go over stuff and it goes for me and sometimes against me. I’m annoyed that I don’t do enough stuff off-the-cuff. It’s a difficult thing to do something quickly and stand behind it.

We’ve been around about 20 years and we only have, what, two records? We’re not terribly prolific.

I always wanted to be in this role, as a songwriter. In the Pumpkins, it was always impossible because Corgan would wake up and write five songs. He was so prolific, there wasn’t a lot of room for anyone else.

My father was prolific when it came to writing: day-timers, journals. He wrote on pieces of loose-leaf paper that he held on to, and he wrote in spiral notebooks.

Ryan Murphy is a genius. In terms of television, very few have been as prolific.

I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

I hate the term ‘Bollywood,’ because we’re not a ‘me too’ of Hollywood. The Indian film industry is prolific.

I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who’s the most prolific director in England.

Cory Doctorow should be too busy for lunch. He’s co-editor of, and a prolific contributor to, one of the most influential blogs in the world, Boing Boing. Over the past decade the Canadian-born writer has published 16 books, mostly science fiction novels. He campaigns vigorously on the politics of the digital age.

I love nonfiction the most. It’s hard to find a good nonfiction story, and that’s why I’m not as prolific, I guess, as a lot of people. They’re hard to find. I love the nonfiction writer Ben Macintyre. I think he’s terrific at the form of telling a story in a cinematic way.

Between podcasts and places like Funny or Die or CollegeHumor, there are so many venues to get the word out. It makes it difficult in that there’s a never-ending desire for content, so you have to constantly be turning stuff out, but that makes you better and more prolific in general.

Take one female cat over a seven-year period. If all the kittens survived and bred, she would be responsible for 21,000 cats – they are such prolific breeders: you can see how important it is to neuter.

Ultimately, I’m not the most prolific person, but I’ve been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

It’s not just about acting. I love film, I’m a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don’t let me sleep at night.

Prince led by example. As prolific as he was as an artist, he was just as courageous in the business.

My father was a very prolific writer and he left behind a huge body of unpublished work.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

The visual team of ‘Blade Runner’ – one of the last big fantasy movies to be made without much computer graphics finery – worked directly for Scott, who sketched each of his prolific ideas on paper (they were called ‘Ridley-grams’).

With songwriters like me who are prolific, you just write the song and then put it on tape.

Yes, I am very prolific.

When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it’s about other people.

Considering what a prolific writer Dickens was, the word ‘Dickensian’ could legitimately cover a vast thematic territory, explaining at least some of the variety of its applications.

The prolific Chinodya has written a number of striking books, most notably ‘Dew in the Morning’, an exploration of an idyllic rural boyhood; the sophisticated ‘Strife,’ in which sins from the pre-colonial past cast shadows into the present; and the rich and varied short-story collection ‘Can We Talk?’

We all grew up aware of Agatha Christie; there is no writer more prolific than her in England.

I’m a huge fan of R. Kelly’s. He’s a musical genius and probably the most prolific artist of the generation before mine.

The thing is, I’m not a prolific songwriter.

Photography suits the temper of this age – of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.