The WSJ published an interview with mystery writer Robert B Parker earlier today.
I write five days a week unless there is something I have to do instead. I normally write seven to 10 pages a day, which means I generally finish a new book every three months. It comes easily, and I don’t revise because I don’t get better by writing a new draft. Indeed, I sometimes get worse. When you reread, you never like it as well, which means I won’t like the second draft either. So I don’t do it… If I were single and childless, I’d probably write fewer books and venture off to more exotic fields. But I’m content. It’s not a grind.