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Barbara Cartland

Ambition

Barbara Cartland wrote - or ‘wrote’ since she mainly dictated - up to 8,000 words a day, and frequently finished two books a month: in 1976 she published 23 books; she wrote 723 books in total.

Nobody cares because they’re all shit.

John Lanchester, “Maigret’s Room”, LRB 42, 11